Originally Posted by Calchas

Welcome to FlyerTalk Buzz0000. I hope you are recuperating. Only you can decide if you want to pay for the extra TP and the associated meals and lodging that such trips inevitably entail. I would say if you are looking for an excuse to enjoy your health and fly to some new places, a renewed gold card is as good as any. You are correct in that a number of routes, so called "Shorthaul plus" routes, do get 80 TP per leg: KARFA has prepared an authoritative guide on the topic in the first post on this thread.