Originally Posted by
sram
you might find it harder to qualify as SE with AC due to AC's skimming of AQM's relative to other airlines. I find this one of my biggest complaints with how AC treats is loyal flyers. While UA offers 100% PQM on all fares, except N and BE. AC scams its frequent flyers and only offers 50% AQM standard fares. If you fly for work and need to take the lowest logical fare, you'll most often loose out on 100% earning on most fare classes in NA.
If a fare bucket doesn't give me 100% miles it would put at risk my status for the next year (in addition to any value I gain from the miles themselves). That would dramatically reduce my tolerance of an 80% travel job down to not-at-all-tolerable. So its not "logical".