Originally Posted by orbitmic

Thanks! Understood on reward, but it's good to know that they fully count towards HON points.

The paradox to me is that BA "only" needs 80% of spend on BA for GGL whilst M&M HON and FB Ulti effectively require 100% on LH Group/AFKL but both the LH group and AFKL one have far broader international coverage than BA (which frankly, offers me limited long haul options outside of the US and a few sweet spots like South Africa and Sydney).

It's also the case that I can effectively get Ulti with 10 x connecting long haul J returns or HON with 13 x connecting long haul J returns whilst for BA, I'm probably looking at 20 (given that in my experience "eligible spend" is actually significantly below what I pay)

Originally Posted by fransknorge

IAG put a threshold for their high value tier higher than its European counterpart (and very true of M&M having a much wider geographic coverage, thanks to it covering 8+ airlines) but unless I am wrong, it is the same for the mid tier ones. And lower for the lowest tier. So a wider dynamic range.
As far as I can remember, HON was always requiring to have 100% flying on LH Group. And it is more open as before the changes, only flights in J and F were counting for HON. Now Y and Y+ are counting.