I'm a South African who travels to the US twice a year for school and has some supplementary travel in between (~70% of my travel is on SAA). When I started up school in the Northeast 3 years ago I signed up with OnePass instead of SA's Voyager, because I could earn 100% EQMs on all flights with OnePass, but usually only 50% on Voyager on SA's own flights (I fly exclusively in economy).
In that first year I managed to reach Gold in OnePass with the careful planning of just two flights between the US and CPT and a third CPT-CDG roundtrip. My victory was short lived when the merger arrived, because MP rules prevailed and on MP, discount economy earned 50% on SA flights, however ordinary economy earned 150% EQMs! This compensated somewhat for the occasional discount fare. I could manage with this change and careful planning.
Now MP seems to have changed their accrual with SA, to 100% on non-discount economy fares, maintaining the 50% on discounted fares.
I've already lost all status on UA this year because my EQM balance was ~43,000 in 2012, but I did not make the new 4 segment requirement. No soft landing to Silver even :(
I thought I could fix things this year, but with the new earnings change, I may not make status again. I don't know where else to go, because Voyager isn't any better (earns poorly where MP doesn't, like on LH, AC).
I yearn for the days of OnePass. My wings have quite definitively been clipped!
Thank you MP.
In that first year I managed to reach Gold in OnePass with the careful planning of just two flights between the US and CPT and a third CPT-CDG roundtrip. My victory was short lived when the merger arrived, because MP rules prevailed and on MP, discount economy earned 50% on SA flights, however ordinary economy earned 150% EQMs! This compensated somewhat for the occasional discount fare. I could manage with this change and careful planning.
Now MP seems to have changed their accrual with SA, to 100% on non-discount economy fares, maintaining the 50% on discounted fares.
I've already lost all status on UA this year because my EQM balance was ~43,000 in 2012, but I did not make the new 4 segment requirement. No soft landing to Silver even :(
I thought I could fix things this year, but with the new earnings change, I may not make status again. I don't know where else to go, because Voyager isn't any better (earns poorly where MP doesn't, like on LH, AC).
I yearn for the days of OnePass. My wings have quite definitively been clipped!
Thank you MP.