QR as a potential status alternative

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I am sitting at Doha airport during the first of three trips to HKT, BKK and MLE over the next few weeks. I have just played with the QR mileage/tier point calculator and those trips will earn 562 Q points for an average of £1,800 per flight (a mixture of P and R); that is just enough for Emerald which feels perfectly reasonable.