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Old Mar 25, 2013 | 6:45 pm
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CrazyJ82
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: LHR
Programs: BA Gold/owe, CX AsiaMiles (not even GR anymore!) missing my GO days
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Originally Posted by Psychiatrist
i guess CX needs to offer some benefits to each category - if SL doesn't offer lounge access (when flying on CX/KA economy), then it's really not that much different from GR apart from 10 kg baggage and priority baggage.

keeping lounge access for SL is quite fair. i was lured from GR to SL because of lounge access. then got lured to GO (don't really know how that happened) ... and now to DM!
Another good point. The lounge access for lowest-tier elite is unusually generous. But at 30k, the threshold is slightly higher than for many programs' equivalent. And, crucially, there are no tier bonuses for mileage earning. The lowest tiers on AA/UA/BA etc don't come with lounge access, but they offer 25% RDM bonuses.

I agree with Cathay Boy and others who don't want to see a devaluation in elite status. But would a trade be acceptable? I'd probably forgo lounge access at SL if instead we got RDM tier bonuses. A guy can dream, anyway.
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