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Old Nov 6, 2015 | 1:37 pm
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Originally Posted by VickiSoCal
I'm trying to figure out how this will impact the husband. He doesn't fly cheap fares in order to qualify, he flies cheap fares because his company requires him to. (Must select lowest reasonable routing and fare or you will hear about it) He usually ends up flying about 70K worth of cheap domestic fares with 1 or 2 discounted business class trips on Qatar/BA/Cathay. I need to take a look at a spreadsheet, because trying to do it in my head is making my head spin.
He is probably gonna take a 40-70% hit in RDMs. Partners' rdms will likely have an unknown yet but different formula, which is going to be relatively equally bad.
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