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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 2:45 am
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Adiazlaureate
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Io "renewal"?
Am coming up to the end of first 2 year period and wondered if any io on here has been renewed? What happened? Was it as out of the blue as first time round or did they give you notice? Thanks in advance
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 2:54 am
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Ooooh. You must be anxious.
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 4:09 am
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Do keep us posted on how it goes - would be interesting to know how EK handles this 'tricky' situation.
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 4:42 am
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When Hyatt "ditched" me from courtesy card to diamond I took it like a man so not overly anxious
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 5:57 am
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Well said. Given that there are no published criteria for qualification, let alone re-qualification your guess is probably as good as most of ours. There may be someone on the board that knows so let's wait and see ... Aquitania?
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 2:03 pm
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Wonder if its a soft landing to Platinum ?
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Old Oct 10, 2013 | 2:46 pm
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Good question but probably we won't know from my case as would be well over minimum for platinum anyway.
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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 5:50 am
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Originally Posted by Adiazlaureate
Am coming up to the end of first 2 year period and wondered if any io on here has been renewed? What happened? Was it as out of the blue as first time round or did they give you notice? Thanks in advance
#firstworldproblem


Let's us know what happens!

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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 6:01 am
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I'm courious as well. Several crew have told me IO doesn't depend purely on miles. There are apparently IOs that fly very little. But they may own/manage companies that fly a lot, be related to someone called al Maktoum or other, unknown things. It's all a bit murky.
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Old Oct 11, 2013 | 8:44 am
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Perhaps FTer chinatraderjmr can shed some light.
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Old Oct 12, 2013 | 1:39 am
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Originally Posted by Turicus
I'm courious as well. Several crew have told me IO doesn't depend purely on miles. There are apparently IOs that fly very little. But they may own/manage companies that fly a lot, be related to someone called al Maktoum or other, unknown things. It's all a bit murky.
It's nothing to do with the amount you fly it's who you are and your spend on ek so mainly senior execs of big businesses and other VIPs
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Old Oct 12, 2013 | 3:03 am
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I'm certainly not a VIP nor someone who has budgetary influence on who our very small office team in Dubai fly with so don't think that's right
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Old Oct 12, 2013 | 4:28 am
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Originally Posted by Adiazlaureate
I'm certainly not a VIP nor someone who has budgetary influence on who our very small office team in Dubai fly with so don't think that's right
Do you have any more or less substantiated theories why you became IO?
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Old Oct 12, 2013 | 4:48 am
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Nope.i assumed it was spend. 50 round trips a year or so.mostly medium/long haul 80/20 biz/f so I guess around $250k spend. But like everyone else I dont really know.
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Old Oct 12, 2013 | 6:17 am
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Originally Posted by Adiazlaureate
Nope.i assumed it was spend. 50 round trips a year or so.mostly medium/long haul 80/20 biz/f so I guess around $250k spend. But like everyone else I dont really know.
You will be io based on that spend. I was told circa 300 but 250 is a fair wack so you are valuable to ek.
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