dvs7310 I agree with all your comments. Thanks for your input! I'm not offended. I mostly wanted to point out that RTW tickets can be great and earn a huge number of miles at a relatively reasonable cost, but they aren't quite as easy and cost effective as anc305 was making them sound, and this was a thread about earning status on flights departing the US, but a RTW is NOT cost effective if you depart the US!
Maybe just a pet peeve, but posting EXP values might make things more attractive because the number is huge, but it just makes this more complicated because not everybody has that status (I do), so they have to convert back to base mileage and then multiply by their status multiplier (if required). It also makes it hard to compare the cost per LP unless we start posting everything with the EXP bonus.