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Old Jul 18, 2012 | 9:53 am
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Originally Posted by Mile-a-holic
That was you!!!

When I was traveling weekly, status was helpful during irrops (was mostly on CRJs, so no upgrades but a free snacks). Now that I'm mostly leisure, I just make sure I'm in a premium cabin for vacation, and don't really need status.

BUT, when I have travel for work...I miss my old status. SUre it's only 20 more minutes in security. I have lounge through my AmEx. But when they did OpUPs on my international flight (when I had flown 22k on their airline in the past 5 days, and would willingly have paid for the upgrade!), I did want to cry.

Would I ever, ever, do a MR to Hong Kong to get status? Never. Would I spend several hundred dollars to get status if I were close? Probably. Did I stupidly choose AF for my last flight to get Delta status? Step One: My Name is...and I'm a Mile-a-Holic
I know people in HKG so not an issue for me to do MRs there.
But, most of my MR is done to NRT/Europe.
And, DL>>> AF.
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