Originally Posted by
AStarr
Just because they said "This is how were doing it" doesn’t make it any less arbitrary. I'm curious how the arrived at all four very different flights being of equal value despite being very different flights. I'm sure there is some algorithm behind it but from the outside, it does appear an arbitrarily signed value.
I have only barely looked at using Flying Blue so I'm just trying to get a handle on it in the middle of the transition so it's confusing. I'm weighing my options with taking on status with a second alliance right now... So I'm trying to learn. With the transition period, I realise I just have to accept whatever they've given me and I'm okay with that. I'm just trying to understand it. But it seems quite random to label four very different flights as having the same value which is the very definition of arbitrary - announcement of doing so or not.
1. They haven't "assigned a same value to very different flights". In Flying Blue, each flight was always one flight. A single segment, nothing more, nothing less. As long as it was qualifying, it was 1 tick on the counter, whether it was discount domestic economy on TAROM, or the longest, most expensive La Premiere flight in AF network.
2. At the same time, and especially in your case - you didn't get the same XP value of your very different flights - as your flights were either longhaul or premium, and you earned more than ~1400 miles on average per flight, the XP counter was initialised based on your miles.
All in all, I think the conversion factors were extremely fair to FB members, and indeed could be leveraged to get a leg up on status.
Originally Posted by
AlicorporateUK
Frankly, as much as I understand the degree of confusion arising from embracing a new program as such, I am unable to understand the arbitrary element in your last few posts.
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