Originally Posted by
eightblack
This is an intelligent conversation. I agree in the sense that as frequent flyers, we are not entitled to op-ups. But with EK, it would be nice to know the actual criteria they use to process when a flight is oversold.
As you say, UA approach things differently by having another tier. And actually another if you consider GS as a stand alone "tier".
EK have been threatening another tier above Gold ever since they made the program changes at the beginning of 2010.
Seriously, I simply can't figure out why EK does not have a tier above Gold. I'd fly way more than 55K tier miles/year if they did (especially now that they have a second LAX-DXB flight). In the past they had some bonuses for various thresholds above 50K tier miles (either discounted redemptions or bonus miles), but that's also gone in the past few years.
I guess they saw the large number of Golds and decided to make the criteria more revenue driven and hope to drive down the number of Gold's and keep exclusivity - but that's not mutually exclusive with having a new tier at 100K tier miles right? Any ideas on why this has not been done yet??