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Old Jan 4, 2016 | 12:58 pm
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Originally Posted by aSWUplz
I believe under the old system you would have received 462 EQP. The 500-mile minimum applied to Miles and not Points, so you would also have received 462 EQM + 38 bonus miles (RDM miles), bringing this total to 500.

Your Million Miler total would also increase by 462 miles.
That's very interesting. So it looks like for 2017 qualification elites will receive a minimum of 500 EQMs per segment. Since the whole concept of the 500-mile minimum has historically been tied to redeemable miles, I wonder if the concept as applied to EQMs will stay around once AAdvantage transitions to dollar based earn later this year?
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