Originally Posted by TheSYDTraveller

People need to be mindful of MH Z class and specific routes between Asia/ME and Europe (see the links above for routes) that will earn significantly less than what you might expect. As an example, QF don't have a great relationship with QR and actively punish it's members for flying them. Flying from Western Europe to Doha will earn you less than flying to Sri Lanka. But flying from Doha to South East Asia earns you more than flying from Europe to Doha. Here are some examples in J:

• LHR-DOH on QR 60SC
• DOH-SIN on QR 100SC
• LHR-CMB on UL 120SC
• DOH-AKL on QR 80SC

So you can see it's not really distance based for certain routes.

The focus would be similar to BA where multi-segment short hops are better for earn. It works incredibly well for intra-Asia/Europe especially flights between 251-750 (40SC) and 751-1500 (60SC) and 1500-2000 (80SC). It's been a while since I did a non-Aus based SC run so I'm fairly out of the loop. About 10 years ago the first time I achieved QF WP, I did BKK-KUL-HKG 4 times b2b over a week for under $2500 AUD during that time. That doesn't include positioning and what not but just an example what can be achieved.

As an FYI, there has been talk of a recent survey on potential revenue base status for QF but the Australian market is very different so most people don't expect something as drastic as what BA has done.

Originally Posted by FlyingSquirrel_

Credit points to VS while flying KLM to the East

Originally Posted by Markie

I think you need 4-5 business roundtrips from the UK to get to VS Gold - don't you?
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Originally Posted by ScienceTeacher

Dare I ask; those here who do only leisure flying in CE� what is the benefit to you having Silver status (or Sapphire equivalent)?

You get lounge access, and a decent enough baggage allowance that the odd flight you need another case� �60?� why chase status?

I suppose seat selection is nice� but worth a huge TP run? I�d pay the �40!

Originally Posted by Imposter

How do the Distance programmes account for connections. End point to End point miles and one allocation of Points, or each segment and multiple allocation of points?

For exmple, WAW - LHR is 916m. Old world BAEC that would be 40TP. WAW-HEL-LHR is 584m+1151m and would be 40TP+40TP in old world BA. Under the MH distance scheme, do they allocate the trip as one flight of 916m, [Zone2 501-1200m] for 3 points, or two flights of 584m and 1151m both Zone 2 for a total 6 points, or one combined flight of 1745m [Zone3 1201-2200m] for 5 points?

Same kind of question for QR which also seems distance based.

Originally Posted by NickB

AIUI, it is per segment with MH (for non MH flights, which are revenue-based). The distance-based approach also applies to MH segments when the itinerary is a multi-airline itinerary (whereas it is revenue-based for a pure MH itinerary). I have not looked at QR at all.

Originally Posted by ivanwmc

You are not the first to wonder. To mention just what comes to mind:

• ​​​​I choose to fly long haul in J and short haul in Y, so for the latter status benefits are very welcome
• More and more airlines these days have or introduce basic/light business fares which exclude lounge access, etc. and status compensates for loosing the cabin benefits.

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Originally Posted by guv1976

AS 75K also gets you AA MCE, as well as the possibility of upgrades on AA domestic flights.

Originally Posted by Alex_I

From Alaska website:
On flights operated by American, the tier order is:

• American elites with oneworld Emerald status (AAdvantage� Concierge Key, Executive Platinum, and Platinum Pro)
• Alaska Elite members with oneworld Emerald Priority Tier (MVP Gold 75k and MVP Gold 100k)
• American AAdvantage Platinum (oneworld Sapphire)
• Alaska MVP Gold
• American AAdvantage Gold members (oneworld Ruby)
• Alaska MVP

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This means that on AA flights AS 75k and 100k have upgrade priority below AA PLT Pro and I would not expect many upgrades/

Originally Posted by brp

I�d argue that AS 75k should be below Plat Pro as they are both mid-tier Emerald. 100k should be above Plat Pro, but it seems that they�re just grouping things as AA Emerald followed by AS Emerald for convenience.

I don�t know where AA Exec Plat is in the AS hierarchy wrt 75k but, as I mentioned above, our upgrade rate on AS is very high. These are all short flights as we buy F on the longer routes, so that could also be a factor.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by bthere79

IB+ seems the best way to get/keep OW status for me. I only fly J if heavily discounted and IB+ does not distinguish between different classes.

Originally Posted by darthlemsip

I think it will be Alaska for me if someone could validate my maths please.

International business class flights booked via Alaska, so on AS codeshare, get 250% EQM's, meaning the 4 x LHR-JFK returns I do a year, available with AS codeshare would be 8 x 3442 miles base + 150% which is 66,840 EQM. Add in at least one QR return to Singapore (125% as no codeshare available - although could use SQ), which is 2 * 3527 + 2 * 3857 for 14768 base + 25% for 18460 EQM's and I'm on 85,300 EQM's before adding in any personal travel.

I very rarely travel domestically in the US, and usually it's tagged on to an international leg anyway, so the loss of domestic lounge access doesn't bother me.