Avianca now selling *G status.
Aug 22, 2015, 1:45 pm
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Avianca now selling *G status.
Aug 22, 2015, 1:50 pm
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So much for cheapening the J cabin.
This one takes the cake. Why do these airlines do such dumbuttocks things?
Aug 22, 2015, 1:55 pm
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US Airways used to sell it. It's how I bought *G.
I don't recall if I paid $2k or $2.5K
//cheapening the product since 2013
I don't recall if I paid $2k or $2.5K
//cheapening the product since 2013
Aug 22, 2015, 1:56 pm
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Wouldn't *A also hold responsibility to some extent? How can something like this be allowed without them being complicit?
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
Aug 22, 2015, 1:59 pm
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Wouldn't *A also hold responsibility to some extent? How can something like this be allowed without them being complicit?
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
Aug 22, 2015, 2:09 pm
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Wouldn't *A also hold responsibility to some extent? How can something like this be allowed without them being complicit?
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
I'm not privy to how alliance agreements work (not that many people are, given their proprietary nature) but I'd assume somewhere in some contract they would have baked in a clause that would forbid this. Of course, I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made from it too and no doubt a not inconsiderable amount of people will cough up, so there's that element for them to consider as well.
Aug 22, 2015, 2:18 pm
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*G needs to find a way to clamp down on all this cheapening.
But of course, if it makes them money somehow, I guess there's nothing stopping it.
*sigh* I feel like I'm paying 100 times *G and only reaping *G.
There needs to be a new tier on AC as well as *G.
AC Cowabunga Elite = *G Diamond or whatever
But of course, if it makes them money somehow, I guess there's nothing stopping it.
*sigh* I feel like I'm paying 100 times *G and only reaping *G.
There needs to be a new tier on AC as well as *G.
AC Cowabunga Elite = *G Diamond or whatever
Aug 22, 2015, 2:19 pm
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Aug 22, 2015, 2:20 pm
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*G needs to find a way to clamp down on all this cheapening.
But of course, if it makes them money somehow, I guess there's nothing stopping it.
*sigh* I feel like I'm paying 100 times *G and only reaping *G.
There needs to be a new tier on AC as well as *G.
AC Cowabunga Elite = *G Diamond or whatever
But of course, if it makes them money somehow, I guess there's nothing stopping it.
*sigh* I feel like I'm paying 100 times *G and only reaping *G.
There needs to be a new tier on AC as well as *G.
AC Cowabunga Elite = *G Diamond or whatever
Aug 22, 2015, 2:22 pm
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Aug 22, 2015, 2:23 pm
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Aug 22, 2015, 2:29 pm
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Aug 22, 2015, 2:38 pm
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Especially when the article goes on to explain how Schwab doesn't really see the value/buy in for a such a tier ?
<facepalm>This whole thread should be re directed to the Star alliance/Aviance forum as its not even AC related.
Aug 22, 2015, 2:39 pm
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Plus, I can gift it to a friend. But I don't.
I will gift the lifetime version of it though since that's what I'll get as a giftable item for being golf crap 2MM.