Originally Posted by
hfly
Oh please, few people in the real world ware (sic) stopping short at 124k and change. Considering the fact that even here on FT it is just a percentage of those that could qualify, this is such a non-issue. Put it in perspective, there are a quarter million FT members, of those perhaps 20% are active on the DL board (50k), Of those maybe 10% are PM (5k), of those only 20% have bothered to post anything about this subject (1k), and of those probably 80% have no thoughts about trying to hold short of 125k miles.
So in effect you have 200 somewhat savvy fliers MAX that for their own reasons do not want to become DM. Unlike certain other FT movements, this one does NOT have legs in the real world.
Not sure where your numbers come from since you didn't post any sources. But my reading of the DL forum on FT the past few months has indicated that not just FT'ers are stopping short of 125K MQM. Don't have the time or desire to weed through and find the more-than-one post about friends and colleagues who don't even know FT exists doing the same thing.
Frequent travelers who are not on FT are usually pretty savvy too. I think you are greatly underestimating your numbers.