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Mar 20, 2009 | 9:40 am

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Originally Posted by Steph3n

I wasn't giving us that much credit

but I am saying that there WILL be people that hit their goal sooner and stop flying UA to test the waters at AA, DL, CO etc because they got their goal, they will take their normal business elsewhere not keep it there because they got their desired elite level.

DL forums already have a lot of people saying this is great, I can go to another airline sooner and still have my Medallion status for 2010 at DL.

True. I think those people are balanced out by the equal (if not larger) number of clueless flyers doing TPAC in J and F, without even having a Frequent Flyer number. They exist in startling numbers.