Originally Posted by
sgrunt
The most interesting thing here to me in all of this is the "earn on surcharges" bit - with me heading to Europe relatively often there's often $1000+ YQ charges in the prices and those would go a long way towards covering what might otherwise be qualification gaps (I only narrowly didn't hit $10k last year on account of using some points for once, and all of the YQ from those flights would have more than made up the difference).
I don't really see much here for me otherwise.
Yep. YQ on a recent LHR trip was $1799. The fare was $978. For some reason I was credited with $734 of earnings. If I was trying to earn higher FF status on WS, the old program wasn’t going to help me much on the spend front. The new one at least puts a semi-frequent flyer in range but they aren’t doing anything to win me over from being a free agent who picks the best business fares (TATL) and doesn’t worry about the airline so much.