Originally Posted by
ExCrew
Just because you don't have a dog in the fight, does that mean you wouldn't defend the underdog here?
I hope you're not speaking about the FlyerTalk community as a whole here, because quite a few people would take serious issue with your comments.
Your "this doesn't concern me...why should I care?" attitude kind of flies in the face of the reason a lot of us participate in FlyerTalk.
I think there's more to it than that; I think it's so difficult to qualify for 1K based upon the former 100 EQS standard that there simply aren't many of them around to complain about it.
As for why 2P & 1Ps haven't been seen complaining about how tough it is to qualify on segments, I think some of that is simply subtle intimidation. It's not that the 1Ks are rude or look down upon the lesser elites as much as it is a fact that the majority of significant discussions here revolve around 1K issues. This is not a representative sample of UA flyers, or even UA elites. 2Ps and to a lesser extent 1Ps simply don't feel as comfortable airing their grievances.
After all, consider the proposed numbers given in the past for the various elites. 50,000+ 1Ks, 250,000 1Ps and approximately 1/3rd of the country for 2P (OK, not quite
that many!) if I recall correctly. The fact that posts here are mirror images of that is all the evidence needed to see just how skewed the sample of flyers on FT really is.