Major iDine / Rewards Network Cities
May 21, 2008, 9:56 pm
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Major iDine / Rewards Network Cities
The latest AA RN mailer had a list of major cities and numbers of restaurants in each. Of course, you can get these numbers by searching online, but I thought it was interesting:
Chicago - 215 restaurants
Dallas - 146 restaurants
Los Angeles - 343 restaurants
Miami - 202 restaurants
New York - 557 restaurants
San Francisco - 97 restaurants
St. Louis - 78 restaurants
Washington, DC - 237 restaurants
Actually, come to think of it, that looks like a list of AA hubs and focus cities - wonder if those in other programs got a different list? UA DEN? DL ATL? US CLT?
Chicago - 215 restaurants
Dallas - 146 restaurants
Los Angeles - 343 restaurants
Miami - 202 restaurants
New York - 557 restaurants
San Francisco - 97 restaurants
St. Louis - 78 restaurants
Washington, DC - 237 restaurants
Actually, come to think of it, that looks like a list of AA hubs and focus cities - wonder if those in other programs got a different list? UA DEN? DL ATL? US CLT?
May 22, 2008, 5:19 pm
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To be fair, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas are the 4 largest metro areas in the US.
Being a native Angelino, I have nothing to complain - though wading through 343 choices is another difficulty when trying to use AA's MileFinder map
Being a native Angelino, I have nothing to complain - though wading through 343 choices is another difficulty when trying to use AA's MileFinder map
May 22, 2008, 6:44 pm
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"Actually, come to think of it, that looks like a list of AA hubs and focus cities - wonder if those in other programs got a different list? UA DEN? DL ATL? US CLT?"
I use the UA program and got:
Chicago - 187
Denver - 124
Las Vegas - 47
Los Angeles - 310
New York - 121
Phoenix - 109
San Francisco - 74
Washington, DC - 222
Maybe it's the program or maybe the cities were chosen based upon where you reside. I live in Orange County.
I use the UA program and got:
Chicago - 187
Denver - 124
Las Vegas - 47
Los Angeles - 310
New York - 121
Phoenix - 109
San Francisco - 74
Washington, DC - 222
Maybe it's the program or maybe the cities were chosen based upon where you reside. I live in Orange County.
May 22, 2008, 7:51 pm
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"Actually, come to think of it, that looks like a list of AA hubs and focus cities - wonder if those in other programs got a different list? UA DEN? DL ATL? US CLT?"
I use the UA program and got:
Chicago - 187
Denver - 124
Las Vegas - 47
Los Angeles - 310
New York - 121
Phoenix - 109
San Francisco - 74
Washington, DC - 222
Maybe it's the program or maybe the cities were chosen based upon where you reside. I live in Orange County.
I use the UA program and got:
Chicago - 187
Denver - 124
Las Vegas - 47
Los Angeles - 310
New York - 121
Phoenix - 109
San Francisco - 74
Washington, DC - 222
Maybe it's the program or maybe the cities were chosen based upon where you reside. I live in Orange County.
May 22, 2008, 8:26 pm
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The other reason it made sense to me was that I think there was something in the phrasing about checking out restaurants in those cities when you're traveling, which would, of course, be on your iDine/RN airline!
May 23, 2008, 8:48 am
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Of course, you can get these numbers by searching online, but I thought it was interesting:
Chicago - 215 restaurants
Dallas - 146 restaurants
Los Angeles - 343 restaurants
Miami - 202 restaurants
New York - 557 restaurants
San Francisco - 97 restaurants
St. Louis - 78 restaurants
Washington, DC - 237 restaurants
Chicago - 215 restaurants
Dallas - 146 restaurants
Los Angeles - 343 restaurants
Miami - 202 restaurants
New York - 557 restaurants
San Francisco - 97 restaurants
St. Louis - 78 restaurants
Washington, DC - 237 restaurants
I got the above two, and also NWA and it's got yet different numbers:
Chicago - 219
Detroit - 160
Los Angeles - 332
Minneapolis - 51
New York - 555
Portland - 102
Seattle - 68
Washington - 233
This is more evidence for the point I made in another thread months ago, that increasingly there are restaurnts that particpate in some airline programs but not others in quite a few cities.
Last edited by sdsearch; May 23, 2008 at 8:56 am Reason: added NWA
May 23, 2008, 4:45 pm
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Although I'm a UA flyer, I use idine only for accumulating AA miles. All the more reason when I see the numbers of participating restaurants for the two programs!
Last edited by KathyWdrf; May 23, 2008 at 4:52 pm
May 28, 2008, 11:03 am
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If you're visiting cities
bear in mind those numbers are for the entire metro areas, inc close-in suburbs!
Downtown Seattle, without wheels or a lengthy bus/cab trip, is up to around 5 or 6 now. Portland is roughly the same.
Downtown Seattle, without wheels or a lengthy bus/cab trip, is up to around 5 or 6 now. Portland is roughly the same.
May 28, 2008, 12:30 pm
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