Originally Posted by
gardener
It would result in too many elites and anger the true elites who were BIS or BIB.
It would not just anger the elites,
it would in the end cost the airlines money.
The reason the airlines tolerate us MRers is because, in reality, there are so few of us. It's easier for them to let us slip through, earning major status and benis for a mere pittance, than it would be to screen us out.