<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Gaucho100K:
I agree with you. You are smart enough to play the system... good for you. But, why do you hold it against the airlines when they do an analysis and determine that smart customers like you are NOT the center of the universe, and instead work to reward other flyers that give them more $$$...???
Its funny how many flyers are just screaming bloody murder and jumping from carrier to carrier that will maintain their sand-castle perks for a little longer (for free, that is). The best example of this behaviour is a militant group of 1K flyers over at the United board... fuming about the now defunct and pretty much useless (for chepo fares) SWUs.
Of course, as one other FTer poster the other day, things may change when UA stops operating and AA goes closer to Chapter 11... maybe things will be once again taken with the right dose of perspective?
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It sounds to me like you are just accustomed to getting something for nothing... and now that the party is over... well, you know where Im going.
Why fume and fuss? because this is a somewhat short term situation. Profits will be back and the more perks preserved NOW means more perks later. Unions are powerless against the economic tide that is rushing over them. We as the providers of much of that cash get a vote. Remember the "Golden Rule"?? "Those with the gold make the rules" FFers are the single largest "voting block" within the industry in terms of cash to spend. We have econimic power and we should use it early and often to preserve what we percieve as earned benefits in what is sometimes YEARS of loyalty