Originally Posted by
SJC ORD LDR
Your model doesn't make sense. If every 40,000 MQM requires $5,000 in spend, the DM threshold for MQD should be $22,500. Also, the number of MQS between status should not be 50, 60, 30, 40. It should be 50, 50, 50, 50 or some increase like 50, 50, 60, 70.
He clearly built this fictional model so that he would just barely hit the DM threshold and others wouldn't.
I would suggest a much more reasonable, two tiered model: Anyone below 127k MQMs (coincidentally just below where I'll be after my upcoming Africa trip) gets absolutely nothing, and anyone above 127k gets guaranteed first class on every single flight, 25 miles per dollar spent, and all of the non status folks are required to form a human tunnel and do jazz hands while the 127k status people board to the sound of the song "Extraordinary" from the musical Pippin.