Originally Posted by
TheHorta
It's so good, nearly 60K people participate. Why would it be a bad thing to have another published tier above DM, using their same calculation methodology? Why would it be a bad thing to not be forced to compete with large herd numbers?
I'm not seeing what deleterious effect such a tier -- one that can't be manipulated by CC spend -- would create.
You keep saying “50k people!” like that’s some outrageous number for an elite level. Delta flies “more than 180 million customers each year”[1] and flies more than 250 billion seat-miles[2].
So Delta’s highest public loyalty tier is in the neighborhood of only .02% of their flyers. But by flying at least an order of magnitude more than everybody else, we use up 2-3% of their seat miles.
So on any given plane you’d expect an average of 0-9 Diamonds, to a first approximation.
What’s the status you want against those other 8 people that you think Delta can economically offer? Or is it just very important that you be recognized as the most important customer on the plane?
[1]:
https://news.delta.com/corporate-stats-and-facts
[2]:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...lta-air-lines/