Originally Posted by
Carolina2Cali
That would be insane and practically entirely unfair since when I earned my EQD I was never told they'd be worthless for upgrade tiebreaking in less than 6 months. HOWEVER, as with most loyalty programs, you can go chasing status or benefits or free nights or flights and due to their own terms that say they can do whatever they want, we can't do jack about it if they actually pull shenanigans. If EQD truly do count as one LP each, I bet they kiss a significant number more of elites goodbye.
Once the LP system starts ticket purchases will earn LPs same as what you currently earn for miles based on amount spent,
For $100 ticket:
Base miles earned = 100 x 5 = 500
Bonus miles for EXP = 100 x 6 = 600
Total = 1,100 which will = LP
Issue is rolling LP.
EQD is real dollars spent with no multiplier.
Hence it they just start with raw EQD - then if you have $10K EQD - you only start with with 10,000 LP in your rolling 12 months.
If they go back and recalculate how you would have earned based on LP rules - then that 10,000 LP would be 110,000 for EXP to start the rolling LP.
Rolling LPs only apply to upgrade priority within Elite tier.
So someone could spend $10K on their CC on Jan 1 and say start with same 10,000 LP for rolling.