Originally Posted by
mke9499
I just hope that AirTran does not play this as if this is part of an altruistic program to give back to the community, i.e. charity.
Of course it's not "altruistic." AirTran is a business, and they're trying to steal some of Midwest/Frontier's customers. Giving the miles to charity makes the switching customers feel good and perhaps does a bit of good. What's wrong with that?
If I were Frontier, I'd cap charitable contributions at 49,000 miles for the life of the AirTran promo. Not the nicest thing to do, but why let AirTran "exploit" the Midwest program for their own gain? Sure AirTran might respond by changing the promo, or issue a snotty press release, but so what?
And, of course, Frontier could respond with its own ff promo.
BTW, how much longer is the AirTran/Frontier ff partnership likely to last? A couple days?
And I'd love to see one of the Star Alliance carriers run this promo on Delta!