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Old Oct 8, 2025 | 12:13 pm
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Originally Posted by WillBarrett_68
There are approximately 4 billion DMs.
To elaborate, we're also still "working off" the pile of long-term Diamonds from the pandemic. Given another year or two that should die back a bit.

I'm a bit torn on the "battleground upgrade" versus "advance upgrade" policy. The former is good for SDCs while the latter is good for status upgrades. Then again, I'm also someone who would prefer to just get more RUCs/GUCs and pay up the rest of the time.

I do think we're all hopeful that the data from those F-heavy planes (the ones where they couldn't get the lie-flat seats approved so they just threw in a ton of F seats) will nudge them to add another row or two of F on more of their fleet.
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