Win-win here. We don't fly that many expensive or cheap fares - middlin' we are, but we win with our real cheapies going to count, and NW wins because we will now fly the extra this year for Platinum.

Which was in doubt. We had 3 months of no flying at all, and recently had to cancel two other trips. And since our upgrade % on NW as Golds was so good, we were thinking of just sucking it up and being Golds again.

Now I think we'll say Thank You, NW, and make sure we have a slightly better position in the queue of elites, which I think is going to get longer and longer this year...

TH - why don't you use your DL GM status to ask NW for a comp, eh? Of course you'd be a "lowly Gold" but see remarks above about how tough that is.

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