Originally Posted by Tax Dude

MG: I know this doesn't apply to you, but many SEs _only_ fly 100k a year. So giving up 100% tier bonus is only giving up 100k miles. I don't think that's a lot to trade for gifting E50 status. Or, as has been pointed out above, you can trade 50 7-day e-credits and recover 40 5-days from your newly-birthed E50 member. If R=0 in advance, it's not so bad really as it's the flying member's status at the gate that determines upgrade priority isn't it?