Originally Posted by
atldlff
Hope that my clarification helps. There were 60 other sets of ears in the room, so please chime in and correct me if I mistated anything.
Thanks. It does help.
Yes... I had overlooked including the NWA numbers (not intended as a slight to our NWA brethren). NWA had about 40 million enplaned passengers in 2008. So maybe 4 million more elite upgrades (maybe higher since NWA planes have bigger FC sections
).
Bottom line... while I am gratified to see that DL did not tinker with the upgrades, I cannot envision this as a "gift" to the FF community. DL had to see that maintaining the status quo was to DL's financial advantage... or changes would have been made.
Perhaps they saw the likely mass exodus of elites that would have resulted as what it would have been... a tremendous "cost" to DL.