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Old Sep 1, 2006 | 9:12 am
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Originally Posted by hvisti
Probably not <100. But there can't be that many of them either as 300000 miles or whatever the limit is really isn't achievable by anyone else but frequent, long haul business class travellers. I know exactly one person.

Everyone else in Finland, including me, who have mainly short haul business trips are actually BA FF:s. I can easily maintain my emerald status with BA gold. (LHR-CAI-LHR once a year in F, 360 points, ka-ching). On AY I probably wouldn't even be able to get their gold card making me a disgraceful ruby basically without any lounge access. I wouldn't even dream of a platinum card with a couple of short haul business trips and an AONE3 a year.

So the Arlanda emerald lounge people are probably 90% BA gold members.

/hv
I thought the Finnair points were based on kilometers, and business class counted double, and first class triple, so ~62500 miles in F, or ~94000 in J earns Platinum. And most shorthaul earns more points than the actual km (Finland to Scandinavia 1500, to Germany 2000, x2 in J) right?.
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