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Old Dec 3, 2014, 1:52 pm
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Originally Posted by dieuwer2
So you're paying $1000+ to maintain meaningless "status", while cheapo kettle just spend $100 snatching that FC seat away from your upgrade.
Yeah, sounds like a plan...
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What are you talking about. Status does not guarantee you an upgrade to first/business class, nor does it get you into the SkyClub.
Status has different value to different folks. For example, if you're PM but $1000 gets you to DM, and you were going to buy SkyClub membership @ $450 anyway, then the $1000 is really only $550. On top of that, you get ~25000 more RDM (say, $250) and potentially 4 GUCs (worth several thousand), so yeah, it does sound like a plan.
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