Originally Posted by
LaserSailor
Its amazing what educated (?) people will do for faux status on an airline. Spend their weekend going to IST in a metal tube, and then coming back.
They are sheep-shearing programs, not loyalty programs - relieving people of their hard-earned life for a plastic card.
And that's where you are wrong. It is not merely a plastic card, but a shiny plastic card which they can show off to their colleagues to show how good life is.