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Nov 17, 2015, 4:38 pm

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TheDudeAbides

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Originally Posted by brp

I was looking at the Deep Discount on BA. It has

25% Base Miles (Elite Qualifying)
0.5 EQM per mile flown.

So, it's either EQM = 0.5 * number of actual flown miles (and the Base Miles column has no meaning)

or it's EQM = 0.25 * 0.5 (=0.125) * actual number of miles flown.

Definitely not clear.

I posted almost the identical question in the BA earnings thread brp, and it's not clear to me either. Is it 50% or 12.5%? The source of my confusion is the same as yours --the parenthetical words elite qualifying. I wonder if "(elite qualifying)" is a mistaken holdover from an earlier chart?

Quote:

Originally Posted by brp

That's what I would have thought had it not said (elite qualifying) on what would be presumed to be the RDM multiplier. But this is what I'm thinking as well, despite that.

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