Originally Posted by
RealHJ
+1
As I've said before, this thread organizer has picked the worst possible time for this. Doing this now (and you can bet that DL is following this thread) will encourage DL to abuse its FFs more and more, seeing that no matter how much abuse it throws down, it has (gullible and apparantly abuse-loving) customers throwing more and more money at it.
IMHO the moderators should delete this thread.
Alternately, it could be interpreted that Delta's most active frequent fliers immediately decided that if the SkyMiles program was going to have continually reduced value, then they require some kind of bulk discount in order to remain loyal.
Several people here have already stated that their spend would be higher with Delta (or remain exclusively with Delta rather than being spread around) if this discount came to fruition. Surely Delta can see that their program would be driving some of these people away if not for the potential to also pay lower fares.