Originally Posted by
bse118
Are you Plat Pro yourself?
If so: If your concern is someone who earned PP status by way of a challenge coming ahead of you on the upgrade lists, I wouldn't be that concerned.
Upgrade lists are sorted by 12 month rolling EQD totals within status level - someone earning PP by challenge will in all likelihood have EQD levels below the PP threshold (low spend) and thus should be behind people on the upgrade lists who earned status the published way - by hitting the EQD threshold.
Once that challenge person earns the actual EQD threshold he/she is no different than any other person who earned status.
Am I missing something?
Maybe, just maybe, he was just venting about the fact that he has had to suffer through 88 segments on AA to get his status and his friend got it for nothing.
Why set requirements if AA isn't going to hold people to them?
(Yes, I understand the idea that AA did this for a specific reason that we will never know in an attempt to lure his friend's business to AA.)