Originally Posted by johan rebel
Hmm . . . . I have just re-read my post twice, but can not find any reference to NW, let alone any benefits I allegedly expect. All I did was provide some information on benefits previously offered by KL.
When I used "you" I did not mean to imply you. I should have used the third person pronoun one so as to be clearer. I have seen posts in the past where poster(s) was(were) complaining about having their upgrade cancelled NW repeatedly when KLM had upgraded her as being ufair. Since I have neither read FD nor FB rules, I do not know whether the benefit was extended to NW flights but the posters in referred to certainly expected it, and continued to have KLM reinstate the upgrade. Before you jump to say that but NW did not allow it, I should point out that one poster claimed that one NW specific agent was mean and was instrumental in having her upgrade cancelled. There was something similar about a Gold poster about NW domestic FC upgrades. My memory is a bit vague at this point, but it's posts with this tone that lead one to think that FD members were getting upgrades on NW metal.
Originally Posted by johan rebel
I have never flown NW, nor do I have any reason to believe that I shall want to do so in the foreseeable future. What benefits that airline may or may not choose to offer its own or other airlines' elites is completely irrelevant to me. You may therefore rest assured that I shall not attempt to deprive you of any upgrades to which you believe you are more entitled than I am.
See my response above. There are certain people in any programme who like to work around the system or want to push a benefit beyond the limits of applicability. That would be the case, if the WBC upgrades were not applicable to FD members on NW metal. Whether you fly NW or not is not relevant to me, es epcially if you abide by the rules and do not throw temper tantrums as some posters seemed to have indicated in their post.
Originally Posted by johan rebel
What makes you think I ever thought that? You may wish to attempt to read my post again, slowly and carefully. It is all of three sentences long and contains only a few words of more than two syllables, so it shouldn't be too difficult to comprehend. If you are successful, you will discover that I nowhere mention NW, its elites, or what I think. I provided a simple statement of fact, nothing else.
Have you never seen the use of "you" as applying to a third person in general, or in the sense collective you? You may wish to re read my post with the knowledge of the sense in which I used "you". If you wish, you may mentally replace you in that post by one, where you felt you were being personally implicated. There are definitely some people who felt that the benefit wasllowed even on NW metal and threw tamper tantrums when they couldn't get it.
Originally Posted by johan rebel
Your belief is based on the assumption that availability is the same for members of all partner programs. You may well be mistaken. Many airlines have larger allocations for members of their own programs.
My belief is based on what I have read in FD forum.
Originally Posted by johan rebel
Being a generous person, I hope that you will secure all the upgrades your heart desires, and trust that you will enjoy your flights even more than usual in the secure knowledge that your seat was not given to a less deserving passenger.
There is no need to escalate this discussion to sarcasm. I hope you understand how I used the pronoun "you". Nothing I said was intended to implicate you personally. I believe you assumed you were personally being blamed. You were not.
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