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Old Oct 7, 2010 | 8:43 am
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ORD-LIH
 
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Originally Posted by PremEx
And indeed it was and is an offshoot of Premier Executive. It was a totally unofficial and internal sub-set designation when it first started. So much so that many 1K's didn't even know they had a special designation at first!

A post of mine on this from over 6 years ago in November of 2000:



Above from:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90499

This is an awesome history lesson. Did GS develop the same way? Initially with informal "internal" rewarding of customers who had a spend over $X or was it a more formal thing the GS program developed first?
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