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Old Jan 31, 2020, 7:48 am
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Originally Posted by ryman554
I missed the existence of the PA-D waitlists (although I knew of PA/PB back in the PMUA days).

What were/are these intended for?
They were loosely intended to sort by status, but also became rather superfluous when the system was able to sort by status within a particular waitlist.

I don't think moving everyone to PD should have a material effect on upgrade clearance, except that if GS instrument upgrades go to PD instead of PA, then I think non-GS on GS instruments will lose their gate priority.
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