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Old Oct 4, 2022, 9:46 pm
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Originally Posted by marks88
SO: how can you be #10/12 on the Y+ list, but then beat out the rest of the same Y+ list for priority for J? Of course, similar names, etc. aside.
Non-GS passengers using GS instruments.

GS upgrade instruments clear into PN, which is always ahead of PZ, so even a non-status member on a GS instrument is ahead of anybody else on a non-GS instrument.
However, for PE, all instruments clear into RN, so there is no special status granted to GS instruments and all passengers there will be sorted according to their status.

Thus, a 1K on 1K PlusPoints will be ahead of a Plat using GS PlusPoints on the PE list, but behind that same Plat on the J list.
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