Originally Posted by user999991

Now perhaps I just fly too much, but when the four folks moved up, I was pretty sure they were not Global Service or 1K. We just have this sort of harried traveler look, and the four elderly leisure travelers sure didn't have that look.

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I emailed the 1K desk to ask if the four upgrades were, in fact, Global Services or 1K's with higher mileage balances than my own,