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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:01 am
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Originally Posted by SleepOverGreenland
What is the difference of a SEN and a LH gold?
No difference, I just meant access should be limited to SENs and not gold members from other airlines.
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:01 am
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Originally Posted by SleepOverGreenland
What is the difference of a SEN and a LH gold?
You really don't know?
Well, have a look at your FF card.
It's black.
It says HON.
And it says *A Gold.

So your HON card makes you *drum roll* LH GOLD.
But strangely, my LH GOLD card doesn't make me HON.

So here you have your difference between SEN and LH GOLD:
SEN is a SUBSET of LH GOLD. @:-)
SEN + HON = LH GOLD.
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:03 am
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Originally Posted by flysurfer
You really don't know?
Well, take a look at your FF card.
It's black.
It says HON.
And it says *A Gold.

So your HON card makes you *drum roll* LH GOLD.
But strangely, my LH GOLD card doesn't make me HON.

So here you have your difference between SEN and LH GOLD:
SEN is a SUBSET of LH GOLD. @:-)
As usual Flysurfer you have the perfect answer ! But I must admit I wasn't being as subtle as that, I just expressed myself badly ...
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:04 am
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Originally Posted by ottone
As usual Flysurfer you have the perfect answer ! But I must admit I wasn't being as subtle as that, I just expressed myself badly ...
So you are a genius and don't even know it!
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:08 am
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Originally Posted by flysurfer
So you are a genius and don't even know it!
Now you found me out: I am a wonder of modesty and understatement ...
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:12 am
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Originally Posted by ottone
Why would they want to reduce the number of SEN anyway ? Lounges too crowded ? In that case it would be sufficient to limit access to LH golds only, as suggested in other threads in this forum ...
Originally Posted by flysurfer
You really don't know?
Well, have a look at your FF card.
It's black.
It says HON.
And it says *A Gold.

So your HON card makes you *drum roll* LH GOLD.
But strangely, my LH GOLD card doesn't make me HON.

So here you have your difference between SEN and LH GOLD:
SEN is a SUBSET of LH GOLD. @:-)
SEN + HON = LH GOLD.
Although I like your explanation (and start thinking, that you must be a computer programming professional due to your boolean algebra logic ) I think the context in ottones post made my conclusion clear.
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 11:14 am
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Originally Posted by ottone
No difference, I just meant access should be limited to SENs and not gold members from other airlines.
If this is coming to pass, I'm glad I just qualified for SEN!
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 1:42 pm
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Originally Posted by 2035
But will they reduce earning on certain D/Z fares, esp. intra-Europe? That's my main concern...
Who caresI fly F and C
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Old Oct 2, 2007, 2:59 pm
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Originally Posted by ottone
Well seats in C are already blocked (SEN or no SEN) and the blocking in Y is not guaranteed, any checkin agent can overrule it even on non full flights (this happened to me recently, two people wanted to be seated together and they chose the first row of economy, thus taking "my" middle seat, almost every other middle seat in the flight was unoccupied).
Why would they want to reduce the number of SEN anyway ? Lounges too crowded ? In that case it would be sufficient to limit access to LH golds only, as suggested in other threads in this forum ...
IIRC half the number of SENs are gifted by LH and not obtained by flying but more because the person is (was) considered commercially important. It sounded like they wanted to cull these SENs back to where they belong....Let's hope this is true and we don't face too many nasty enhancements ...
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 2:12 am
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Originally Posted by roundtheworld
Who cares I fly F and C
Very true for me as well. ^
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 3:01 am
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Originally Posted by roundtheworld
Who caresI fly F and C
Originally Posted by SleepOverGreenland
Very true for me as well. ^
So you guys still can't afford chartering at least a 767 für your trips?
Pathetic losers.
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 3:51 am
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Originally Posted by roundtheworld
Who caresI fly F and C
I do I've only once or twice booked a C fare in my life and the only time I paid for F was on of these cheap DAX fares ex-Australia. I'm one of these cheap HONs on D, Z and even lots of economy fares..
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 3:57 am
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Originally Posted by hch
I do I've only once or twice booked a C fare in my life and the only time I paid for F was on of these cheap DAX fares ex-Australia. I'm one of these cheap HONs on D, Z and even lots of economy fares..
Well, I have been on D fares a few times, since becoming HON. But this is the LH computer, not me. I'm asking my TA to book me in C and due to the HON D booking guarantee the computer automatically puts me within 1 minute after booking to D per my TA. I don't care so far.
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 5:53 am
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Originally Posted by flysurfer
SEN is a SUBSET of LH GOLD. @:-)
SEN + HON = LH GOLD.
Not a sum! It is a "union". Technically.
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Old Oct 3, 2007, 6:31 am
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Originally Posted by andre1970
Not a sum! It is a "union". Technically.
As said before, flysurfer is using boolean algebra logic here. ^
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