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Old Sep 13, 2015, 5:30 pm
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Efrem
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Originally Posted by jspira
Delta had Flying Colonel and Flying Orchid (the latter for women) going back to the 1940s (if not earlier)...
Delta gave me Flying Colonel in the late 1980s. By then it had been devalued a great deal. I got a nice wood plaque for my wall and that was about it. Lifetime Crown Room access (what they called SkyClub back then) had been eliminated. About the only thing the card was good for was using the fast security line, before I regained Delta status by flying in the last few years and got TSA pre-check anyhow. Then I lost the card, along with my then Silver Medallion ID, hurrying to catch a flight at MSP. Asked DL for replacements. Got a new Silver Medallion card, replaced soon after by a Gold Medallion card, but no FC card. Oh, well.
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