Originally Posted by
af fp
Well it is harder for short flights, but for long haul, if you buy the cheapest coach ticket between Europe and the East coast, you used to get 25% of the miles per flight, so maybe 900 miles, it would have taken 28 flights to hold silver, now it will be 10 times 10 XP, huge change. And still in premium eco with the cheapest fare, you go from needing 7 flights to needing 5. Cheapest business: from 5 flights to 4 flights. Cheapest first: from 3 flights to 2.
But you're talking about miles, I'm talking about segments (the disadvantage of the old system - you qualified with one or the other). In your case, 15 flights would have got you silver, not 28 - that would almost get you Gold..
OK so now that's 10 longer distance flights you need, 5 TATL round trips in the new system. It depends on your flight patterns... Long distance fliers are perhaps better off in most cases, European fliers worse off.