The red carpet line on hub to hub flights especially seems pretty long right now. Check in agent confirmed 20 1K pax on my UA 198 red eye this week, a pretty high % for a 752. Perhaps up to 50% (or more?) of pax held some sort of status with UA for that trip I might presume, factoring in GS, 1P, 2P and CO elites.

In retrospect, I am hopeful the DEQM stays an abandoned relic of the past in future years. Not just because I managed to re-qualify without it, but because they are moving to the 75K threshold for those who fly more frequently than 50K but might not eclipse 100K consistently.