<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DrivingRain:
Vulcan,
Offering International upgrades to Elites would affect revenue. I have quoted myself in a summary of the rationale and the pros and cons.
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The price of a BF ticket is probably more than many individuals in our board spend on CO tickets in a year. It takes many lower fare defectors to make up for 1 BF pax who would otherwise try to upgrade a lower fare tix. How do the net $ shake out at the end of the day? I dont know...none of us pax do.
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How about basing the upgrade reward not only on miles flown but take the revenue that the passenger has brought it into consideration as well? E.g. somebody who flies 100K miles AND spends $50K annually would get the elusive BF upgrade.
That would get my attention. As it is, after next week I would probably start flying DL since I would have made OP Plat again. Especially since DL has lately automatically upgraded all the unrestricted tickets I've bought on line at the time of purchase. And I don't even have a status with them.