Originally Posted by
number_6
Not that significant....you can still keep the high-cost segments. For most routings it is under 10% devaluation. Oneworld claims fewer than 1% of issued OWE tickets had more than 16 segments in the past year, so it really only impacts the MR community.
Not significant if you want to visit London, New York, Hong Kong and Los Angeles.
But the moment you want to go to other places which are one way routes from hubs you need a lot of segments.