<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Traveller:
but how do people make up their minds on which airlines to switch to? </font>
I can't say it was any single factor when I moved from top tier at UA to top tier at AA. I looked at routes (in my case, AA flies from 4 nearby airports), fares, partners, and elite benefits, and I knew they would comp based on threads on the AA board (which was the first place I started my research).