I've been trying to earn plat on both NW and DL this year, plus MVP on Alaska (the 160K Elite ExtraPerks rewards just weren't that enticing so I decided to spread my travel around this year). I'm about 50% there on all three. Alas, I'm not sure what to do now.
this may seem like a very stupod question but here goes.
Why on earth would you spread your miles between two programs within the same alliance?????
50% there in each program to become Plat means you would be Plat in one of them by now if you had collected it all in one.
Am I the only person who see the stupidity in this?
Location: San Antonio, TX; CO Platinum; DL Gold; UA Premier Executive
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I'm so looking forward to not being able to reserve exit row and bulkhead seating in advance on international flights. And to DL's new three-tiered award redemption scheme. And to paying T-Mobile for wi-fi at our newly combined lounges.
I'm sitting on 700K+ WorldPerks miles. I guess the clock has just started ticking on my dream dive trip to Chuuk and Palau since the looming rift with CO will likely remove Micronesia entirely from the combined DL award map.
If this merger is going to sail through, it had better do so in time to net me some upgrades to and from St. Thomas on my Memorial Day weekend trip with DL.
I've been an elite on NW for about 5 years now since my former days as an AS MVPG. I grew up flying NW all over and since the demise of customer service at AS, I've really grown to love NW. I am really torn now on what to do now. I think that service is only going to decrease from GEG now. We have 2 NW Mainline flights to MSP daily and about 4 to SLC on DL. I don't want to have to connect in SLC or even worse ATL.
Programs: CO Platinum, SPG Platinum, HH Gold - whatever that's worth now :(
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Folks, ease up on the tears and tissue...nothing has happened yet. They announced a merger - there is no government approval, no shareholder approval and no employee approval yet.
Any one of those three could scuttle the deal - and rest assured an Obama White House would look very closely at potential job cuts or service cuts to rural areas, and my bet is on them either rejecting the deal, or placing such harsh restrictions on it, the deal will die on its own.
I am not calling 'done' on this deal until the ink is dry, and that won't be until early 2009 if at all, regardless of the PR chest beating that comes out of Eagan and Atlanta.
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Location: Escondido CA. I may get home again this year... but I don't know when.
Programs: NW PE. DL exPM. HH Diamond. smof.
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
Folks, ease up on the tears and tissue...nothing has happened yet. They announced a merger - there is no government approval, no shareholder approval and no employee approval yet.
Any one of those three could scuttle the deal - and rest assured an Obama White House would look very closely at potential job cuts or service cuts to rural areas, and my bet is on them either rejecting the deal, or placing such harsh restrictions on it, the deal will die on its own.
I am not calling 'done' on this deal until the ink is dry, and that won't be until early 2009 if at all, regardless of the PR chest beating that comes out of Eagan and Atlanta.
You and Lex. I fear the greed will prevail, but I guess there's still an iota of hope.
Any one of those three could scuttle the deal - and rest assured an Obama White House...
I find it ironic that you are mentioning the NW/DL deal as "not a done deal" but you've already assumed Obamamamamama in the White House... which won't happen until after the dust settles on this merger anyway.
Programs: CO Platinum, SPG Platinum, HH Gold - whatever that's worth now :(
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Originally Posted by jpc
I find it ironic that you are mentioning the NW/DL deal as "not a done deal" but you've already assumed Obamamamamama in the White House... which won't happen until after the dust settles on this merger anyway.
Even Clinton might not let this merger pass without a deep check, but Obama is the best hope for either scuttling or crippling it. I have no read on McCain, so I can't tell what he would do, or if he even knows NW doesn't fly bi-planes anymore.
The merger won't even get government approval for at least 8 months, and I'm guessing closer to 10. This would be the biggest airline merger, creating the biggest airline in the world - it won't be given an easy pass.
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Folks, ease up on the tears and tissue...nothing has happened yet. They announced a merger - there is no government approval, no shareholder approval and no employee approval yet.
Any one of those three could scuttle the deal - and rest assured an Obama White House would look very closely at potential job cuts or service cuts to rural areas, and my bet is on them either rejecting the deal, or placing such harsh restrictions on it, the deal will die on its own.
I am not calling 'done' on this deal until the ink is dry, and that won't be until early 2009 if at all, regardless of the PR chest beating that comes out of Eagan and Atlanta.
You seriously think the gov't has not already been involved? C'mon look at the economics - someone from both DL and NWA already has had the gov't around this merger pre-announcement otherwise we have a more serious situation on our hands when NWA or Delta re-enters bankruptcy or goes totally into liquidation consider the broader economic impacts and I think the gov't has been around to make sure this deal goes thru to avoid something more serious. IMHO
I'm surprised by the overwhelming negativity. There's no reason to assume everything people dislike about Delta will stay around. There's also no reason to assume that everything good about NW won't stay around. It is possible that they will combine strengths of each and that the end result may look pretty good. I, for one, think it's exciting. For example, Delta's transcon service and enchanced in-flight services combined with NW's great IT infrastructure. Also, remember that Richard Anderson will be running the new airline.
Folks, ease up on the tears and tissue...nothing has happened yet. They announced a merger - there is no government approval, no shareholder approval and no employee approval yet.
Any one of those three could scuttle the deal - and rest assured an Obama White House would look very closely at potential job cuts or service cuts to rural areas, and my bet is on them either rejecting the deal, or placing such harsh restrictions on it, the deal will die on its own.
I am not calling 'done' on this deal until the ink is dry, and that won't be until early 2009 if at all, regardless of the PR chest beating that comes out of Eagan and Atlanta.
Name one airline merger that has benefitted the flying public or the merged employees? None zero zippo let the tears and tissue and strategies begin now I say. Whilst in college years ago we studied the airline market and it was predicted at the time we would see more point to point service, mergers into mega airlines however a pull back in domestics to the likes of Southwest while the big boys with the big wings would merely focus on overseas. Hmm might be slowly coming true.
Nah... They're saying 8-9 months to merge, so earn and burn. January is when they're really going to have to either keep things the same for another year, or change them in a huge way, and what they do then will determine what I do.
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
I am not calling 'done' on this deal until the ink is dry, and that won't be until early 2009 if at all, regardless of the PR chest beating that comes out of Eagan and Atlanta.
Agreed.
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I think of Delta as the New Worldwide Airline.
I hate to see NW go
could be a good thing...
