As the old saying goes... "When everyone is an elite, no one is an elite."

It is to DL's advantage to have inflated numbers at each program level so that we are incentivized to personally disadvantageous spending patterns in order to compete with the peer group for benefits.

And how serendipitous for DL to be able to roll this out just as the prospect of a mileage run is less enticing now that air travel (at least for now) has become an even greater PITA.