Originally Posted by
PayItForward
Does your colleague controls/ influence your organisation's travel budget?
This.
And while they're maybe not 360s or UHVCs, people that fly mostly short domestic hops can rack up lots of spend without making status. Back when MQDs started up and someone started a hands measuring thread, there were plenty of us paying around 0.2 or 0.3 MQD per MQM. Heck, I've had (rare) times where work schedule required me to spend $1k for a ticket that only generated 1600 MQM...