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Old Feb 2, 2006 | 7:05 am
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Originally Posted by mrboh
Alright so this sounds too good to be true. Supposing I do this SYD-SIN-SYD leg on WT+ .. SYD-SIN is 3915 miles so outbound that's 5873 QPs, then inbound another 5873 but you get your 100% elite status bonus on top of that so that's a grand total of 17619 QPs? Which obviously gets me the plat status.
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What's the catch?
What's this 100% elite status bonus? I don't think there is such a thing when thinking about q-points. AFAIK, your q-point calculation is based strictly on your class of service.
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