Originally Posted by
IBJoel
How many free nights you earned this year. I will admit that this was the most difficult badge to gauge. No shade to our anonymous research group, but I would have liked more input on this category specifically. I saw a record of 200 nights earned in a year, which I found pretty insane, so I halved it.
That's definitely an edge case!
Originally Posted by
IBJoel
See above for comments for countries and FT profile age but, essentially, while I recognize there are 200 countries (give or take), visiting even 10 is an extremely privileged position to be in. Less than 5% of the developed world has travelled to more than 30 countries. BUT a 100 countries badge will be coming.
True, however, FT is privileged by it's design - frequent travelers who tend to skew wealthy. The whole concept of mileage running is foreign to most regular folk.