Originally Posted by
KNRG
I agree with that fully, TPA-EWR recently had me sat next to one of those people who seemingly lives on planes, but who was oblivious to flyertalk (not to mention typically buys F
). So for every one of me - would have gotten silver and will be getting gold before the end of the year - there's one of my seatmate and likely 1/3 of a person who dropped or didn't fly as much.
I recently sat (in Y) next to someone who flies 500k+ miles/year, mostly on CO (enough to be friends with the FA). He had no clue about how the OP program worked, especially wrt upgrades. Of course this dude has no reason to care about DEQMs.