Originally Posted by
pbarnette
That's fine. But I don't really think zip has said much of anything, other than that WP still has employees, and that the official corporate stance is "business as usual." Considering that is all anyone at NW is legally allowed to say doesn't make anyone else skeptical about the claim?
My point all along has been that everyone is ready to assume the best about NW and the worst about DL, and that is likely neither fair nor accurate. There has been no real, hard evidence that NW is looking out for anyone here. Quite the contrary, they have rolled out some of the same "devaluations" that DL has. But hey, everyone "knows" different.
But, amazingly, when I try to offer an alternative explanation for assertions that the reason NW didn't match the whole DL 2xMQM thing is part of some grand plan by DL to protect DL elites at the expense of NW elites, folks look at me like I'm the one with crazy conspiracy theories.
Just to be clear, I am in complete agreement with you that NW's failure to offer 2x eqms is not DL's doing. Would not suggest otherwise. I respect DL, UA and AA for doing this if you look at some of my prior posts on the subject. NW has simply chosen not to do so for whatever reason which more likely than not is that they feel that they do not need to do so. If I were to guess, it probably has something to do with "elite inflation", and it also has to do with SWUs in that they would need to start giving too many of them out. Note I don't necessarily agree with this, and it is only conjecture on my part as is everyone that posits why NW does or does not do something (half the fun around here don't ya think?
). Anyway, I appreciate your point of view and understand the logic of your position. I believe that NW has dropped the ball big time on this and may suffer for it, but who knows? YMMV Safe travels Red Tail denizens!!