Originally Posted by
JBord
Bottom line, this is bad for just about everyone. I have a feeling that anyone thinking otherwise either a) has very short segments and a lot of the, such as 50x ORD-CVG, or b) hasn't really looked at their past flights and worked through the calculation. "11x" sounds big, but its 2x for 1K currently.
Well it actually works out better for me. I fly CLE-LGA and then LGA-CLE every week. Right now I get 1750 miles being Platinum. With my fare this week (without taxes) I would get 4644 with my $516 fare. Pretty good for me. The only thing I worry about is more devaluation in the redemption area.
I understand for everyone else it pretty much sucks though.