Originally Posted by
safigan
I just took a PM survey with DL. On one of the questions was the following statement:
"Delta is considering making Platinum Medallion® Upgrade certificates more flexible by making some less expensive fare classes available for upgrades and increasing upgrade availability."
This is a sneaky way to ask a one-sided question and I can predict what will happen (based on a previous thread by RealDLInsider).
They will lower the fare class required, but they will decrease the number of PMUs given, and limit them to only those PMs who reach higher levels of MQMs. So you will need to earn 125,000 or more MQMs to earn perhaps 2 PMUs (similar to NWA).
Then when they couple that with allowing the PMUs to be used on lower fare classes, they will claim that they are responding to their most valued customers who responded positively in a survey that this is what was desired, despite that the question above does not ask "would you like to be able to use PMUs on less expensive fare classes if it means limiting the number of PMUs you can earn."
Sure I would like to be able to purchase lower fare classes and see increased Z availability, as long as I still receive 6 PMUs for reaching the current PM status of 75,000 MQMs. Does anyone really think this is going to happen?
Susan