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Aug 22, 2011 | 9:07 am

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FlyMeToTheLooneyBin

Join Date: Jun 2009

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Originally Posted by AAExPlat

-1. What makes AAdvantage great relative to its peers is that EXPs have sky high upgrade rates and that lower elites still have good upgrade rates. It is a fair system. If you start letting EXPs upgrade their families with $30 E500s, that would have a direct impact on upgrade rates for lower elites and other EXPs even. I believe that as an EXP, you have earned privileges, but your non-status spouse or kids haven't earned diddly so why should they fly in F before another flyer with platinum status for example?

+1. As much as I'd like my family to fly in F, I believe for the system to be fair, we can't have every EXP upgrading his/her family; it'll be just like the Priority AAcess lane, full all the time.