<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Viajero Joven:
It occurs to me that every Asia round trip passenger will make Silver Elite from the single round trip--- so CO could almost show a video of Elite benefits on the aircraft, since everyone will qualify!!
IMHO, Platinum will be diluted some, but only by people who would ahve made Golds otherwise: for an otherwise-Silver to make Plat would take 25,000 flown miles within 45 days-- that's pretty intense flying! And from 0 to platinum, 37,500 flown in 45 days is unthinkable.
I pity the people who work hard all year to make Silver, only to now compete for an upgrade with every Trans-Pacific passenger a day before departure. Frankly, I'm glad I was headed for a higher tier before Sept. 11.</font>
I agree with this sentiment to a point - and frankly as a Silver am worried about dilution of benefits. BUT - not everyone who flies is a OnePass member and not everyone who is a ember will know about or have registered for the promotion.
I flew CO almost exclusively for the express purpose of getting the (increasingly marginal) benefit of Silver Elite status and do hope that people who flew one round-trip on CO this year won't be occupying a space I could have up front next year.