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Old Sep 26, 2017 | 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Halloweverybody
But anyway I would argue that a diamond under current waiver spending 10k mqd's per year but only flying a dozen-ish RT tickets per year, are as valuable than a "road warrior" doing 50 Round trips, getting tons of upgrades, and only doing 15-20k mqd's.
That math doesn't make sense though. As a mundane road warrior, I can tell you that they price our tickets in the $5-800 range so most road warriors who do 50 RT's are going to be spending $25-40K. I'm doing 35 RT's this year and will hit 20K spend. I'm paying more per mile to fly on DL than most.
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