Starwood Preferred Guest - Stay six, get 3 free with AA & Westin promo

I don't remember hearing about this promo, but it no doubt has been highlighted before. I also checked and couldn't find it mentioned on starwood/westin website. Here's the article that mentions it near bottom of "deals" page:

http://extratv.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/08_03/08_01c.html

anyone? how do we ask? i have a feeling it's the rack rate promotion and not a free weekend deal...

and it's with united not aa

[This message has been edited by welookgood.com (edited 08-03-2003).]

There's also this Westin/United deal:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum74/HTML/007509.html