(I love these boards, really. This has been one of the more constructive discussions).

Vulcan, Boomer, those are certainly valid concerns. I wonder if many of the NW elites, and those of other programs, have faced those problems? It will be interesting to see how CO implements and prioritizes the system...

But the question is, which negative is MOST detrimental, for auto or call-in. I think that the aforementioned potential negatives can largely be allayed. As I have said, the larger, and actual negative still rules, predicated on CO not releasing seats at the elite windows, thus a guessing game with calling, calling, calling, such that being an elite can be of little or no avail, especially for plat/golds...to see more of the rationale for this

please go to http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/001039.html
and note the long, penultimate response. My treatise for less filling.

By the way, I did a search for "less filling" to find the thread.




[This message has been edited by JeffLewis2 (edited 09-27-2000).]