On the surface of it, it is curious but when you delve deeper into the mind of the "Simpler and Fairer" mantra you seen realise that the 5 year olds who conceived it didn't know that YVR existed because QF didn't fly there at the time so they didn't include it in the "East Coast USA" bracket (I do realise it is technically East Coast Canada) and therefore by default it got lumped into the "Extra Long Haul International" bracket when it was introduced as a destination and therefore earns from that bracket.
Simpler for the monkeys who invented the system because they didn't need to consider future QF destinations and Fairer for QFF because it means you are less likely to achieve status so it costs them less.
Simpler or Fairer for you, the pax... nooo, certainly not but then that is what Simpler and Fairer is all about.
QED!!
) How would we book these internal Canadian routes (my TA did my recent one.)
)and then the definition of that. Basically because they don't have Canada/YVR in their main definition, its lumped in with all other long range routes, notwithstanding, as you observe, its longer than and BNE and SYD to LAX.
) that with the firm re-establishment of this route, it will be formally defined in the 'Simpler and Fairer' ™ standard route definitions and earn like the LAX flights do.
