Tier points for Man-LHR flights

Has anyone seen this , just did a dummy booking and this came up


This booking earns 1,500 Flying Club miles and 2 tier point(s). Please note child and infant fares do not earn Flying Club miles, unless

Or is it just another IT glitch ?|

I think the tier point earning has been mentioned before. It's actually a bargain way to get status - 20 trips (or about £2k spend) would get you AU if there were no other restrictions put in place. Weigh that against 4 UC round trips to JFK at my normal corporate rate and it's costing about 5 times as much to maintain my status...

Or comparing it to my rat runs to Belfast on BA, that needs 25 flights to get me to AG... (on the cheap Y codes, before anyone makes that comment...)

I think the tier point earning has been mentioned before. It's actually a bargain way to get status - 20 trips (or about £2k spend) would get you AU if there were no other restrictions put in place. Weigh that against 4 UC round trips to JFK at my normal corporate rate and it's costing about 5 times as much to maintain my status...

Or comparing it to my rat runs to Belfast on BA, that needs 25 flights to get me to AG... (on the cheap Y codes, before anyone makes that comment...)

When one thinks about it, that's a good way of making the MAN-LHR route a bit more popular. Anyone that needs to make a gold or silver TP run may just make two unnecessary trips to MAN which equals more bums in seats.

[Darren Wheeler]

Has anyone seen this , just did a dummy booking and this came up


This booking earns 1,500 Flying Club miles and 2 tier point(s). Please note child and infant fares do not earn Flying Club miles, unless

Or is it just another IT glitch ?|

Return?

Just checked on my single for March 31st and it now shows 1 TP and 750 miles where as a few days ago it showed it as not earning.

Same-day returns at £110 and 2 TP a hop will make for very cheap AU. However I suspect a limit will be put on the earnings to stop it.

I think the tier point earning has been mentioned before. It's actually a bargain way to get status - 20 trips (or about £2k spend) would get you AU if there were no other restrictions put in place. Weigh that against 4 UC round trips to JFK at my normal corporate rate and it's costing about 5 times as much to maintain my status...

Or comparing it to my rat runs to Belfast on BA, that needs 25 flights to get me to AG... (on the cheap Y codes, before anyone makes that comment...)

When one thinks about it, that's a good way of making the MAN-LHR route a bit more popular. Anyone that needs to make a gold or silver TP run may just make two unnecessary trips to MAN which equals more bums in seats.

yes its a good way to reach/retain status but the idea that its a good way to promote the route is madness. the route will not survive if its based on flying club members collecting tier points. its need genuine traffic

2 TP @ £110 is only about the same earning as VX from SFO/LAX to LAS

[Pete]

It does seem like the new tier point run route to replace the old SIN-KULs. Plus you don't actually have to travel halfway around the world to start them, so overall a pretty cheap way of getting status.