I hope last year's DEQM promotions were an aberration not to be repeated. Too many people made it into levels affecting the Elite benefits for the real money-makers for CO. A lot of people who are dropping levels only made it to their current level because of the DEQM. Hopefully the Elite ranks at all levels will be reduced significantly come March 1.

Sorry - hard landings from precarious perches happen.

Looking at 115k genuine, non-DEQM, flown EQMs this year. Genuine 2010 Plat to Genuine 2011 Plat. The missus is going from Faux Plat to Genuine Gold. Was going to do mileage run to keep Plat this year, but BF trip IAH-LHR came up.