US announces double eqm/rdm-will DL follow?
Apr 14, 2010, 9:12 pm
#76
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Wow...I feel like the most-hated man on Flyertalk today. I just REALLY wish there were fewer elites, and I think the only way to do that is to add a "spend" element to the FFP.
Granted, by the program rules, you can make elite by flying back and forth on mistake fares, but anyone that does it HAS to agree that is gaming the system. Too many have figured out how to game the system...so I think it is time to change the system.
I truly didn't mean to offend anyone on here. Like I said before, I am a purist and wish it would return to a pure form. To stay on topic, this includes the hope that there is NEVER another DEQM promo of any type.
First Class is a joke now...it is a joke because the fares to justify good service are not being met. Yes, it is a race to the bottom with DL and seemingly all other carriers. It is a race because the revenue isn't there.
Please take no offense to anything said here. They are only opinions, and I have never claimed to be anything more than an idiot.
Safe flying.
Granted, by the program rules, you can make elite by flying back and forth on mistake fares, but anyone that does it HAS to agree that is gaming the system. Too many have figured out how to game the system...so I think it is time to change the system.
I truly didn't mean to offend anyone on here. Like I said before, I am a purist and wish it would return to a pure form. To stay on topic, this includes the hope that there is NEVER another DEQM promo of any type.
First Class is a joke now...it is a joke because the fares to justify good service are not being met. Yes, it is a race to the bottom with DL and seemingly all other carriers. It is a race because the revenue isn't there.
Please take no offense to anything said here. They are only opinions, and I have never claimed to be anything more than an idiot.
Safe flying.
By the way, don't feel that you're the "most hated person on Flyertalk" - I've already claimed that honor
all because I simply suggested that we might want to tone down the rhetoric here and use less commutative terms to describe Delta's last-minute upgrade procedures. Fortunately, the monitors around here graciously put me in my place, after a stern dressing down by almost every poster around.
Apr 15, 2010, 7:10 am
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I feel like there are too many medallions. Seems like half the plane is medallions, and when you're consistently in the double digits as a PM on high fares for the WL you don't feel like anything anymore. But just my feelings, I'm sure DL has their own and mine don't matter.
Apr 15, 2010, 7:43 am
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Would love to see a DEQM promo, as I may have to take a couple of TATL flights over the period. With M fares, could net a cool 60k MQMs with ease.
As to the parallel discussion... I don't care how people earn their status and think elite bloat is a non-issue and that these promos are launched only when travel is down and elite ranks would otherwise thin.
As to the parallel discussion... I don't care how people earn their status and think elite bloat is a non-issue and that these promos are launched only when travel is down and elite ranks would otherwise thin.
Apr 15, 2010, 2:25 pm
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Would love to see a DEQM promo, as I may have to take a couple of TATL flights over the period. With M fares, could net a cool 60k MQMs with ease.
As to the parallel discussion... I don't care how people earn their status and think elite bloat is a non-issue and that these promos are launched only when travel is down and elite ranks would otherwise thin.
As to the parallel discussion... I don't care how people earn their status and think elite bloat is a non-issue and that these promos are launched only when travel is down and elite ranks would otherwise thin.
Apr 15, 2010, 2:31 pm
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Not quite. I am totally with judolphin on this one.
Many of those on "higher" fare classes are not only flying on their employers dime, they are doing it at a contract rate that may be less than some of the "posers". So who should DL be courting - flyers like me that have flown almost 650k BIS miles paid for out of my own pocket, or flyers that are on DL because it is the carrier that their employer was able to negotiate a contract rate with? Which is more valuable long-term? The reality is that DL needs different types of flyers to fill the planes, so the "my status is real but yours is not" displayed by some posters in this thread is a load of b*ll.
I am totally with judolphin on this one.Many of those on "higher" fare classes are not only flying on their employers dime, they are doing it at a contract rate that may be less than some of the "posers". So who should DL be courting - flyers like me that have flown almost 650k BIS miles paid for out of my own pocket, or flyers that are on DL because it is the carrier that their employer was able to negotiate a contract rate with? Which is more valuable long-term? The reality is that DL needs different types of flyers to fill the planes, so the "my status is real but yours is not" displayed by some posters in this thread is a load of b*ll.
Apr 15, 2010, 3:37 pm
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Not quite. I am totally with judolphin on this one.
Many of those on "higher" fare classes are not only flying on their employers dime, they are doing it at a contract rate that may be less than some of the "posers". So who should DL be courting - flyers like me that have flown almost 650k BIS miles paid for out of my own pocket, or flyers that are on DL because it is the carrier that their employer was able to negotiate a contract rate with? Which is more valuable long-term? The reality is that DL needs different types of flyers to fill the planes, so the "my status is real but yours is not" displayed by some posters in this thread is a load of b*ll.
I am totally with judolphin on this one.Many of those on "higher" fare classes are not only flying on their employers dime, they are doing it at a contract rate that may be less than some of the "posers". So who should DL be courting - flyers like me that have flown almost 650k BIS miles paid for out of my own pocket, or flyers that are on DL because it is the carrier that their employer was able to negotiate a contract rate with? Which is more valuable long-term? The reality is that DL needs different types of flyers to fill the planes, so the "my status is real but yours is not" displayed by some posters in this thread is a load of b*ll.