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Old Aug 11, 2002 | 12:22 pm
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RobertS975
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CKDGM:
Assuming the choice were offered, would you rather have them track MSUs and give us back upgradability on all fares, or have them stop tracking MSUs but make the automatic upgrades apply only to Y/B/M?

(Of course, they'll probably keep tracking them and adding new "super low" fare codes until the K fare is the old M fare...)
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[This message has been edited by CKDGM (edited 08-11-2002).]
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No, I am just questioning what purpose this MSU tracking serves DL. I bet not too many MSUs get purchased for the following reason: one must pay a higher fare to gamble that one might be able to use their purchased MSU, and I'm betting that just doesn't happen very often. The pax would be paying a fare that is often several hundred $$ more and then one would have to surrender purchased MSUs which cost at least $30/MSU if bought in bulk.

So I submit that DL would lose little revenue if every medallion had upgrade privileges within their time frame. But as we all know, we need to be very careful what we ask for!
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