Originally Posted by
bocastephen
I guess you're of the opinion that every airline should just say "sorry, too bad for you" and force everyone to start 2021 as a general member without status?
I don't know. There's no shame in saying that I can't see the future.
It's April. The smart move would have been to wait to see when travel started to become possible again and then run promotions to try to get butts into seats. This doesn't do that.
If things are as bad as DL is suggesting, they could have made this move in October, because they're basically giving up on the summer travel season anyway, so it's not like they're expecting people's MQM/MQD total to grow during the interim.
Originally Posted by
bocastephen
My interpretation of this, would be a customer who earned $10,000 in PQF up to the end of Feb when crap hit the fan, would start January 1, 2021 with $10,000 in PQF already accrued - this would be huge and definitely sets a high bar for United and American to choke themselves on.
Or it's a high bar for DL to choke themselves on, because they'll end up with lots of unhappy Diamonds flying UA and AA. It's just way too early to judge DL's move. They're making a big bet on a slow recovery that they didn't really need to make.