Originally Posted by
SAT Lawyer
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?
Absolutely correct. I suspect many elites (especially Plats) generally oppose measures that inflate elite ranks, and for that reason would have preferred if DL never offered double MQMs. The problem is that they did, so it is incumbent on the other half of the future DL to follow suit.