<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Guy Betsy:
Shall I gloat on the fact that I, Guy Betsy was the very first PPS member in North America way back in 1985!
Those days, the membership pack was impressive. I received a huge leather desk folder, about 3 magazine subscriptions, a couple of pens, a lead crystal paperweight of some sort.... SQ had to track me down at the end of 1984 as I had recently moved from Toronto to London, and then back to Toronto in 1985.
Alas my flying ceased drastically and I duly lost it. It wasn't a number then but rather a series of letters which looked like a PNR. It still worked right up till Krisflyer / PPS came on line. And the remarks of being the first was in the profile, which also consisted of favourite drinks, snacks, hotels, quirks.. (ie doesn't like bulkhead seat etc). When Krisflyer/PPS took over, a new passenger identity was created. PPS didn't give me one because I didn't maintain the status.
I've only recently only become a PPS again. And it was fun for a time when SQ offices in London and Toronto remembered me for a while.. as their 1st PPS member!
Ahhh memories. <sniff>
[This message has been edited by Guy Betsy (edited 06-14-2003).]</font>
Wow, the first PPS member in North America... congratulations!!
Sometimes I wonder if SQ should be more considerate of customers with a relevant loyalty history with the company. For example, GBetsy was not only the first PPS Member in NA, but I guess over the years collected a nice number of sectors and PPS Club miles.
Then, his travel patterns changed and he lost his status. As he tells us, he recently started flying again and now has PPS status again, but according to SQ's rules (at least how I understand them), GBetsy will need to start acumulating sectors and PPS miles again from scratch, and unless he lives on a plane he will probably need 4-5 years to make Solitaire status.
So.. for cases where you were PPS for a number of years, I ask myself whether it would make sense for SQ to consider some of those past PPS years and give members that again quality a sort of retroactive credit, and thereby aid them in attaining Solitaire status a little faster, or?