Originally Posted by QANTAS Web Site
Simpler Award flight point calculations ...
...The number of points needed for an Award flight on Qantas and our Partner airlines will be calculated on the sum of the one-way trips+ in your itinerary.
Originally Posted by QANTAS Web Site T&C Extract
'Trip' means:
(i) a series of consecutive Flight Segments not broken by a Surface Segment, Stopover or Turnaround Point;
(ii) a series of consecutive Flight Segments not exceeding the maximum permitted miles in the Award Flight tables; ...
So "to make it easier", we no longer add up the distance for each 'trip' within the itinery, we need to work out the zone for each 'trip' then total the points.
B******t! It does not simplify things at all.
e.g. For a basic 3 'trip' itinery,
with the current system we calculate:
<dist1>+<dist2>+<dist3>=<Total Dist>, what zone is that? to assign to <total points>.
i.e. 1 addition, 1 Comparison, 1 assignation or 3 actions.
with the new setup:
<dist1>,what zone is that? assign zone points to <trip zone 1 points>
<dist2>,what zone is that? assign zone points to <trip zone 2 points>
<dist3>,what zone is that? assign zone points to <trip zone 3 points>
<trip zone 1 points>+<trip zone 2 points>+<trip zone 3 points>=<total points>
i.e. 1 addition, 3 Comparisons, 3 assignations or 7 actions.
(This excludes the 'trip' distance calculations which are the same for each)