Originally Posted by
SpammersAreScum
If you're looking at discount business (I), BA and CX have better EQD rates than QR. But you'll have to be lucky to find I fares on any of them within your price constraint. Maybe PE, which QR does not offer.
You could do
LAX-HKG-CGK-HKG-LAX in CX-coded PE for $1833. That's 18,550 miles earning 27,825 EQM and 3,710 EQD. So, not surprisingly, this gets you better EQD but worse EQM than repeating
jbeckett's suggestions a few times.
Good to know. Although I do want to chase the status and love flying, I do want to be mindful of cost/time. Doing the SJU run 5 times, would cost around 4500 towards eqd, but get me 75k eqm. While doing the CX for 1800 gets 3700 eqd and 27k eqm. Repeat that twice, and i'm spending 3600, for 7400 eqd, and 55k eqms.
If I'm leaning towards, say, doing the CX run twice at a budget of nearly 4k, is there a more optimal class/fare that nets similar?