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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I was under the impression that we determined at the last DO that:
Plat=20-25K
GLD=60-75K
SIL=225K
and that Infinite Plats were around ~2,000. I guess it won't hurt to ask again.
If memory serves this information would have been from the first DO so these numbers would be as of the middle of 2005. CO also mentioned at the DO's the elite numbers have grown slightly beyond their own targets.
Also as these numbers are 2+ years in the past, one would assume more exist) and while they do not want to turn away
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Originally Posted by J.Edward
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I was under the impression that we determined at the last DO that:
Plat=20-25K
GLD=60-75K
SIL=225K
and that Infinite Plats were around ~2,000. I guess it won't hurt to ask again.
If memory serves this information would have been from the first DO so these numbers would be as of the middle of 2005. CO also mentioned at the DO's the elite numbers have grown slightly beyond their own targets.
Also as these numbers are 2+ years in the past, one would assume more exist) and while they do not want to turn away
Thanks for pulling up that thread. I need to get an estimate on the number of PE's. It looks like Elite levels are log-normally distributed, just as one might expect.
I was tinkering with the concept of SWU's the other day and wondered why DL gives them for the higher coach fares. I don't have much info on DL, but was looking at SWU's for the hypothetical case of CO.
For the case of CO, if you look at the entire fleet, there are about 2,400 BusinessFirst seats. In most cases, each seat can be sold twice in 24 hours (PEK, HKG, etc. are exceptions)--it might work out to roughly 4,000 seats a day or 1.46 million a year. If CO gave three SWU's annuallly to PE's as Delta does, that's potentially 75k seats or roughly 5% of inventory a year--a lot of giveaways. So, I could understand why Delta restricts upgrades on their SWU's to all but the highest coach fares.
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Originally Posted by CO Insider
Hi jobeennyc, although we're rarely in a position to share stats, here's the rough breakdown of our OnePass Elite population as of today:
Silver Elite: 250K
Gold Elite: 110K
Platinum Elite: 60K
Please note that as the year wears on and we mint new earned Elites, this population will continue to grow.
Thanks for sharing.
I would guess that the number of elites who are added to the rolls or move up a level is offset to some extent at the end of February, when those elites who did not requalify for a certain level are demoted.
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Plat=20-25K
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Originally Posted by CO Insider
Platinum Elite: 60K
WOW! Three times the number of platinums in a two year period, while Silver remains pretty stagnant and Gold is ~1.8x. I guess that explains part of the reason why some folks are seeing fewer upgrades - way more competition for the precious few F seats out there.
And to ContinentalFan, I guess you're looking at CO having to "give away" ~15% of their BF inventory (180K seats), not the 5% you thought it would be.
The other bit to remember about DL's SWUs is that I believe they are also limited to upgrade into restricted J classes(I, I think), not into A/D or whatever DL's equivalent is.
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