Originally Posted by
SleepOverGreenland
Let's see: 50K € p.a. on FRA-SFO in C is 9 roundtrips (each ~5'600 €)
- ends up with 230'238 HON miles as a SEN
- ends up with 255'834 HON miles as a HON
D fare even allows for 2 more flights (+ 22%), so earns 22% more HON miles.
So, how did you manage to end up with 150K miles only?
Flying just to Japan, which is the most expensive route?
As I told Luigi - no one who is regularly flying is paying the published rates.
FRA-SFO in C for any big cooperation is 4.000 EUR minus taxes is 3.850 EUR.
To make it HON you need to clock 60.000 EUR - that is 16 flights or about 410.000 miles.
The current cityhopper pays 400 EUR for FRA-LHR in C and makes HON after 120 flights (revenue after tax is 300 EUR x 100 = 36.000 EUR) - HON treatment means 120 limo services at FRA which narrows down the 36K to 30.000 EUR.
I don´t have an issue giving HON to the above long haul traveller (although he clocked only 410.000 miles) and taking it from the cityhopper (who clocked 600.000 miles but does only generate half the revenue).
To increase the number of posts - same applies to SEN. Generate 12.000 EUR revenue or get lost... :-)