Originally Posted by
TRAVEL4SCUBA
For the people that actually earn their status the hard way. The status is diluted when its so easy to obtain. The consumer also sees less value.
It is not diluted, because higher spending and more LP EXPs still have higher upgrade priority. You were simply a lower LP EXP on your flights. If the system changes, you would have still been #17 on those upgrade lists (or lower), and you wouldn't even be EXP, but rather PP.