Originally Posted by
Stripe
I also hope that NW doesn't cave and do a double EQM promo, unless it's limited to higher fare classes. There are too many elites already, and we're coming into peak summer travel season where airlines don't have as much pressure to generate incremental traffic.
In principle, I understand your beef with double elite qualifying miles. However, do you realize that DL is already offering double elite qualifying miles on all fares to its own SkyMiles members? Do you really think we NW elites should enter the merger at a competitive disadvantage -- most troubling, in the zero-sum race for complimentary upgrade space -- because the carrier we are loyal to stubbornly refuses to fall into line?