Originally Posted by
wazow
It sounds unbelievable to me that this is implemented in such a way that any changes in numbering of any member airline requires reimplementation in all of them. After all when you get a new number, all airlines almost immediately know what is your status. It should not require changes in the system. We should just get new numbers, and they should be mapped back to Gold. I understand that other airlines will still display SK*G for Diamonds, as there is no level above gold in *A.
For them to understand that your level equals *A gold, they must be able to understand the prefix EBD.