Originally Posted by
Stripe
Keep in mind that all of your scenarios of elite inflation assume frequent flyers are flying as frequently now as they were, say, a year ago. But if that were the case no airline would be running these types of promotions. I would guess these EQM deals, applied to a lower amount of actual flying, will yield a total elite population not much bigger than before.
That's still, for the purposes of upgrades, quite a bit of inflation, as you would like the number of elites to go down with the number of F seats.
Or at least the amount of elite travel to go down - at some point in the future, travel is going to rebound, and at that point there are going to be a whole bunch of elites floating around traveling at levels they had previously.