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Old Nov 16, 2014 | 5:06 pm
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Originally Posted by johnden
The secret to PQD is not thinning the least valuable elites, although it's a benefit. The most important part is to stop US elites from booking *A tickets with other airlines...
Exactly.

If rank thinning was a thing, they would have included us aliens into the criterion, hence answering my question whether to leave UA and hence reducing the # of 1Ks.
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