Originally Posted by
GrayAnderson
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 think people massively overestimate this. There just aren't that many people who had huge piles of MQMs, and of those people, most of them are still flying enough to earn DM organically.
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 think you're using "battlegound upgrade" here to mean "gate upgrade" (generally I use "battlefield" to mean "the GA comes on board to upgrade someone who has already boarded because someone no-showed") but in any case, I don't see how window upgrades are "good for status upgrades"? Like, if it goes to the gate, DMs are still at the top of the heap. All the window does in this case is punish people who buy last-minute expensive fares (in addition to depleting inventory that could be used for SDC/IROPs). I'm open to arguments here but I just don't see anything compelling about getting upgraded five days out (tbh this probably negatively affects FCM rates as well).