FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Why won't airlines just take $ for status?

Dec 21, 2003 | 7:40 am

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Superd1

Join Date: Nov 2002

Location: Port Angeles, WA, USA Unwanted by AS, Hilton-Diamond, Starwood Platnum

Posts: 758

I think more importantly that even though a few people might be able to achieve status fairly cheaply based on flights from where they live this does not apply to most. Opening up so that anyone that wanted to pay for the cheapest ticket the airline sells would in fact end up making it a losing proposition. I have literally taken advantage of a promo where I ended up with more miles than the cost of the tickets. If everyone could just pay $1,000 and end up with status and enough airmiles to fly First Class to Australia woudn't everyone prettymuch quit paying for tickets and just buy the airmiles?

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