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Old Aug 24, 2016 | 5:10 pm
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Originally Posted by sfozrhfco
For this calendar year yes. The segments were added mid year as were counting award flights in the segment count. Nobody knows what will change for next year.
Woah, what? I hadn't noticed that. If I get it straight, VX Gold is now $10,000 spent on base fare in a calendar year or 30 segments? That seems wildly imbalanced. Even TCON can be had for less than $300 per segment.
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