Originally Posted by
jamesteroh
I'm surprised they are even doing this. I thought the reason for increasing the MQD waiver to $250K was to "thin the herds" By giving an additional 15K MQMs won't this result in more PM, GM and FOs?
People speculate on the reasons but there hasn't been any official announcement. Regardless, it's possible someone wants to reduce the number of DMs and still encourage additional spend on the cards despite the effects on the lower ranks.
The 3rd MQM will definitely inflate the ranks, even of DMs (there are definitely people who surpass DM MQDs and don't make MQMs (I have been one in the past)).
The number of FOs created this way will probably be pretty small since if you already have the first two boosts you're over 25k MQM and you've obviously passed the waiver, but some people will gift their 3rd boost and some of those recipients will probably be pushed over the FO threshhold.