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Old Apr 3, 2019 | 12:14 am
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It's too much of an undertaking to try to track but I think I'd do well. Almost all my Europe trips were one-off nibbles driven by a fare and mileage and all that, and the South Pacific strategy was award trips with a stopover and a final destination. ULCCs like Air Asia also facilitate this sort of thing within a region.

Would think it definitely favors "plant the flag" travelers like I was (i.e. redeem aggressively for free trips rather than upgrades) and still to a lesser degree am. The trips to earn the miles also had destination diversity. The thing about biz travel is that for so many people the mileage was run up via repetitive trips to not so exciting destinations ("the plant in Peoria") so by this metric it'd only count once.
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