Sorry to be confusing. All that I meant by the 10:1 thing was that it's all very well to equate numbers of flights on a 50% basis, but one should also consider that flying LAX-SYD (for example) would cost, ticket wise, some number of times more than the short haul. So what I was trying to say that you may need less long haul segments to get to a goal (of SC's or miles) but they cost more. I pulled out 10x as the factor for simplicity but also because your average N class MEL-SYD is around $100 and we'll be generous and say it's $1000 for a one way SYD-LAX. Therefore a 10 fold increase.

Of course now with the light of day I actually confused myself and read the weighting results the wrong way! The higher the resultant weighted number, the higher the overall cost, so that would need to be taken into consideration because we're talking about discount Y tickets here - people without bottomless pockets to buy willy nilly.

And yes I thought I would see if it was any easier to get status via a mileage program vs. QF. My contention holds that this is still the case in general.

Obviously, as you point out, hypothetical examples/figures only go so far because they really don't reflect a real situation, but I was trying to illustrate, hopefully simply (ha ha!) that QF is not good for bottom feeder pax like myself.


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RichardMEL, UA 1K
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