Originally Posted by
yogimax
Having said all that, the problem remains that Elite inflation will make upgrades more difficult across the board. In addition, with the current numbers of Delta's inflated elites as opposed to NW's BIS elites, we former NW flyers will have to set our sights much lower in regard to upgrade success. Sad but true.
That's the problem. Your drive to do more MR's will be mostly driven by the fact that you are defensively trying to protect benefits that you are used to at your level. It's just sad overall that a Plat is no longer a Plat, but someone who may spend a lot of Amex $$ and then play the EQM promo game right on a few biz trips to Asia.
I can't be the only one who longs for when 75K EQM's were BIS EQM's.
Originally Posted by
JSFox
Why then should some NW flyers, just because they are in a different city from me, get 3 times as many EQM's and that much more of a gift boost towards achieving a level higher than me and perhaps knocking me out of an upgrade?
In some sense one can view this as hub-captive discrimination. It appears that this (and the 5K/10K promo) benefits other elites more than hub-captives, so the net effect is really the deflation of hub captives.
