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Old Jul 31, 2022 | 9:38 am
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EJRofChicago
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Join Date: May 2022
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Originally Posted by FlyingEgghead
The real distinction is hub to hub versus hub to/from non-hub. If you are based at a hub of your airline (say DFW), then whenever you fly nonstop to another hub (say ORD), you will be competing with the DFW elite herd heading out and the ORD elite herd heading home. If you are based at a non-hub, at least you know that every trip starts and ends with a flight on which there is only one city's elite herd.
Yes, this makes much more sense to me. Largely academic for me given my most frequent route is DCA<>ORD and I've yet to get upgraded with Platinum status -- been #1 on the list as doors closed though, so I at least took a screenshot to prove it, haha.
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