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Old Jul 23, 2010 | 10:50 pm
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SEA-ORDFF
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago, Seattle, Spokane
Programs: AS MVPG, AS BR, DL, HH Gold
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Originally Posted by hgdf
If you look at the old BR card next to an MVPG card, you'll see that it's a darker shade...more like bronze. I assume they changed in order to reduce confusion with the MVPG cards. Mine expires in Oct, so I must have one of the last ones.
Exactly. When I first got my blue card, it was not accepted at a lot of Delta locations. A flash of the MVPG card let me right in. They only looked at the color of the card. Apparently word caught on and enough MVPGs were abusing the system... or so I was told by an AS employee.
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