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Old May 3, 2009 | 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by Clipper801
Why couldn't AC/AE make it simple to offer it to everyone by:

25% bonus Status Miles if you fly Tango Plus;
50% bonus Status Miles if you fly Latitude/Latitude Plus
75% bonus Status Miles if you fly Executive/Executive First

all on top of COS.
The current MP promotion is doing more or less this. And if AC wanted to keep the costs down they could simply make the extra Status miles not count as regular AE miles -- the opposite of what they do with their present bonus miles
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