<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by gleff:
If I recall correctly, NW introduced their Saturday night stay requirement about a month after United introduced one... United took all the heat and rolled theirs back. Northwest's more or less crept in under the radar.
Did NW do a better job 'getting away with' the Saturday night stay because all the focus was on United, or because they also introduced enhancements at the same time?</font>
I do not know the timing of the United proposed change, but the NW change was as a result of the 1999 alliance with Continental and it was was debated in FT - it did not "fly under the radar". While some people were not happy with the change, many accepted it because NW added other positive changes - the main positive change being the expansion of the 20K award. Other changes introduced at that time included removing the mileage expiration.