First of all: bruceb - you are an official legend. Time for you to quit being a QF ally and go tell Ansett how to fix their broken program

Re mystery flights.. I seem to recall that the rule *used* to be (This is AN though) you'd only get a set 1000 points or something. My last MF I credited to UA (MEL-BNE-MEL) and got the usual distance credit (70%) for it. I'd imagine under the new QF system you'd get 1000 minimum and if you get a longer flight (which possibly only applies to MF's out of PER??) you'd get actual.

As for the AN/UA argument... I actually could well see under a reorganised global rewards that UA awards would go *up* as bruce suggests. But keep this in mind... If you look at it, the AN awards are really just the straight mileage equivalents of the AN award chart: ie: MEL-SYD = 17,000 km points on AN / 10,000 miles on UA (~16,000 km's), MEL-PER 30,000 points on AN, 20,000 miles on UA (32,000 km's). As bruce points out, the UA awards are still very good compared to AN because it is much easier to get more miles on UA, specially for elite level members.

Interesting times ahead, anyway !

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