Originally Posted by
Beckles
This still does not answer the question. Again, you said:There has always been a good argument to be made to having status on more than one airline if you can exceed the top tier for your main airline, but you said that rollover "is also making some people, once they reach DM, fly other airlines." Please explain how rollover makes this more likely? That makes absolutely zero sense to me, those who could exceed 75k or 125k may well see benefit in obtaining status on another airline if they fly much over that, but I don't see any reasonable argument how rollover encourages that, it clearly discourages that in my mind since it now provides further benefit (beyond threshold bonuses) to accumulating additional MQM above the tier threshold.
Because you can now "lock up" 2 years of DM at once. So if you are like me and have made it to 250k Mqm for the 2009 year I now have DM for 2010 AND 2011 so I have 2 full years to try other airlines (assuming they continue roll-over next year). Furthermore, I do not have to fly a single DL flight next year so I can get 1k or EXP and still have my DM benefits for 2011. That is MUCH different than in the past where you still had to come back to DL the following year to re-qualify.