I reduced flying Us Air in '04 due to their situation...did not re-achieve GOLD status. Wouldn't you suspect they might extend elite status to all due to their present situation? Even with the status, I wouldn't book an international flight within the next 60 days. But, I hope they make it and I'm flying with them again.

Any thoughts?

Wouldn't you suspect they might extend elite status to all due to their present situation?

No

Even with the status, I wouldn't book an international flight within the next 60 days.

And that's why. Status goes to loyal customers.

I reduced flying Us Air in '04 due to their situation...did not re-achieve GOLD status. Wouldn't you suspect they might extend elite status to all due to their present situation? Even with the status, I wouldn't book an international flight within the next 60 days. But, I hope they make it and I'm flying with them again.

Any thoughts?

The problem with this is, I am sure there are MANY people out there who expect many different things "due to their situation".
I am guilty of it too. I had to book an emergency ticket last week due to a funeral and the only award travel available was for 70,000 miles when it would have only cost me 30K. I would have thought as a CP and that is was a death that they would have cut me a deal. They did not. I would have preferred to have paid the 30K, but in the end, if they gave everybody everything "due to theit situation" I am sure they wouldn't last the week.

I think in the past years, they would have upgraded you. Did you try to ask them for a challenge?

I'd expect them to focus on running their company like a business (includes thinning the folks that don't need / want to work there, cutting unprofitable routes, more automation and so on), focus on the customers they have in terms of perks (not the ones they don't have), and focus on getting new customers through the first item. I would not expect them to say 'hey we know you left us because we're in trouble so here's some free stuff for you to put in your sock drawer.' Sears didn't do it, Kmart didn't do it, why should US?

The entitlement attitude has to go. Too many frequent flyers believe that they deserve elite status just because they threw a little bit of business to the airline after years of high-volume business.

It is what it is. Put your butt in the seat and you reap the rewards.

They took me from CP to ZIP because I went from 100K miles one year to under 20K the next. I thought that was harsh, and would have thought they could have let me down easy. But my travel habits are light now, so having elite status wouldn't really benefit them or me, so why penalize all the people who do fly every week by giving an infrequent flyer the same perks?

No



And that's why. Status goes to loyal customers.

Thank you, CPRich. This is, what I missed for over a week.
I am "only" Silver, but I will stay at US.

Klaus