Originally Posted by
Conkers
I was talking to a customer relations person this week who suggested without being specific that the revenue threshold required to be in the top one per cent of Diamond has come down a fair bit since the MPC changes. Anyone have any insight? I should be at about 2000 points this year all from ticketed J/D/I/C but this has historically been well short of DMP territory.
Yea, I think the key point to remember is just how much $ per CP you're spending. Normally I presume you want to keep this figure down. But if going for DMP, then it's gotta be high.
End of the day, the way DMP has been explained to me was it is counts $$ spent on CX metal only. As a result, DM earned on D and I longhaul fares from outports are highly unlikely to get you there, unless you're doing ~35 round-trips of these. Thus CP is probably not the best metric to track.
I was indeed told years ago, the typical person is a lawyer or consultant paid by their corporate not personally, and flying round-trips in full J to JFK twice a month.
I'm confident you could earn it if flying 6-8x round-trips in cash F from the US each year (NOT on AONE fares though), those will run you 15k USD at a minimum. Often significantly higher.
Originally Posted by
Conkers
Both good points supporting the thesis thanks. Also anecdotal evidence from friends that they are requalifying more people who fall short of the 1200 cut off. I recall someone saying USD250,000 but that sounds pretty high equivalent to approx 25 full fare business Hkg-NYC basically.
Digging back into history again, about 8 years ago I was told I was close. They comped a friend of mine GO status as a goodwill gesture (he hardly flies CX) and basically said keep spending on CX and I'll be there. I had spent something around 100k+ USD that year on CX. Never got DMP and never heard back. Now my spending is less than that, even though I'm doing about 2000 CP a year as well.
I occasionally buy full cash F fares these days, but....I've significantly decreased my CX spending by utilizing Alaska award tix for last minute F space. These used to be my most expensive tickets, now they're my cheapest. Hilarious.