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IAN-UK
It's a VERY sensitive matter over in the M&M room. Some years' back Lufthansa lured a pack of BA Goldies to LH Senator level, in a rather odd status-swap with all sorts of upgrade and overdraft goodies thrown in.
The story goes that the barbarians sacked the programme for all they could get and then left. Thus causing a wide-spread devaluation of Senator benefits. Or so the story goes.
Guilty as charged. I was about to fly to Japan on ANA and one of the goodies was two (or maybe four) upgrade vouchers. As my Company mandates Business on anything > 8 hours I was able to enjoy Japanese First class service. The vouchers were good for any *A member!