Originally Posted by coldfoot

same question.. appreciate sage advice...

I am UA 1k out of SFO.. Corporate travel pretty much exclusively and generally get UA booking. More of my travel is going through Atl and UA has greatly reduced route and increase fares to ATL. I expect the bulk of my travel in the next year will be UA so I am looking for a 2nd alternative. I doubt I'd book NW in lieu of UA given my u/g instruments on UA

I assume SM on NW would not help much if I fly Delta in 2009 - I will be hard pressed to realistically fly >25k miles on either.

Unless I am missing something it would seem my best alternative would be to ask for Delta Gold SM.

Comments appreciated...