Originally Posted by
Irrelevant2012
Precursor to redefining MM status as “excluding bonus miles”
Nah. They want to recognize paid J.
It is interesting that they call it "bonus SQM" though. There have been the occasional promotions (most recent is the Amex sign up bonus) that offer bonus SQM. Those do not count as LQM. COS SQM, however, do.
So they're really making this confusing.