Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27495777)

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Sean Peever (Post 27495785)

Lol you of all people know this is true :P

Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27495825)

Yes yes, it's possible to fly MRs at rates that are unprofitable to the airline. This isn't news :p

Though maybe I should do that next year instead of EYW.

$20k CAD for like 700k Aeroplan miles, SE status (again), and halfway to MM? :p

I wonder if I can do it in a week...

Originally Posted by Sean Peever (Post 27495833)

Lol no no it takes longer than that! A week only would do like 40,000 AQM

Originally Posted by YOWgary (Post 27495863)

Horse hockey!

Assuming nothing but long-haul J, and assuming reasonably tight connections, you could probably average 400 mph, times 1.5x CoS, x24 x7, and you could just barely do 100,000 AQM in a week!

...paging Nomad, Dr. Nomad to the thread please...

Originally Posted by YOWgary (Post 27495863)

Horse hockey!

Assuming nothing but long-haul J, and assuming reasonably tight connections, you could probably average 400 mph, times 1.5x CoS, x24 x7, and you could just barely do 100,000 AQM in a week!

...paging Nomad, Dr. Nomad to the thread please...

Originally Posted by canadiancow (Post 27495876)

Remember this started with "425k AQM for 20k AQD on AC metal" though.

You can't just fly YYZ-YVR-SYD-YVR-YYZ and back over and over for that CPM.

Originally Posted by aventure (Post 27495736)

I am sure there is more to come . They seem to be using a different strategy this year . A partial list of changes before they hit us hard once again.

My travels are finished this calendar year, a cancelled trip to China.

Can you believe i travelled 170K with a total spend of $25K, but only $18,5K eligible miles ? all sort of reasons , no code share flights beyond AC gateways in Asia and Africa , some flights that i plainly forgot to book under AC* numbers etc .

I don't even make SE100 .

Increasingly disapointing FF program. I'm considering splitting my travels in two : Gold / E75 on AC with minimum $9K spent and get gold status on Skyteam with the other half . If i am not going to make SE again, i might as well try and get gold with 2 groups. Or just gradually switch to another star carrier such as LH .


Still pondering .

Have to act soon tough , two trips lined up in january : SIN and CCU .

Originally Posted by aventure (Post 27500172)

has anyone done that lately ? They must demand some kind of proof...

Originally Posted by YEG2MM (Post 27500231)

The requirement is that you reside outside of Canada. To claim an address where you don't reside would be dishonest. You decide if your moral compass allows you to do that, whether others get away with it or not.

Originally Posted by Stranger (Post 27500241)

If most of your travelling initiates elsewhere, you should be OK.

But if 90% of my travelling initiates at YYC and I claim an address in Massachusetts (which I possibly could) surely it's another story.I guess my point is, why should we care about ethics when dealing with an organization such as AC, as if they would have some sort of ethics.. Or knew what the word means. Real issue is credibility.

Originally Posted by aventure (Post 27500172)

has anyone done that lately ? ..

Originally Posted by Wpgjetse (Post 27501298)

Who would be that stupid to do this for a Airline FF program? There are a lot of customs/ legal issues this could cause you.