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Old Jan 10, 2009, 8:27 am
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humanoid94
 
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Originally Posted by GTITAN
Is the stratification at the class level? Meaning that all Plats are not equal, but I assume that even a "Riff-Raff Plat" trumps a high spend silver? I just cannot imagine that the DL EUA system will run past a Plat in favor of silver. Let me put this way, on Tuesday afternoon flying ATL-ROC, I on a "T" fare, I just cannot imagine that a Plat will not be upgraded at the window, but nonetheless thanks for the heads up!!!

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That would be my question do... NW also "stratifies" their elites in the sense that according to Bob's previous posts the first tiebreaker among elites of the same level is lifetime yield. I think this is fair, but if DL is putting silvers ahead of plats... unbelievable.

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