The Hyatt Gold Passport treatment of it's diamond members, is better than most airlines will give their top flyers. Diamonds get free breakfast, free WIFI, suites when WE want them and a very generous program: where a program enhancement, is actually an improvement, rather than a devaluation of benefits. Hyatt and most hotel chains are not at deaths door, like many of the airlines. The service provided is what the airlines used to give in my boyhood in the 1980s.
In short, Hyatt has class, which American airline can you say that about, today? I value being a Hyatt Diamond, the airline status is just a necessary evil, needed for avoiding fees (that did not exist a few years ago) and first class upgraded service, which is less than coach in the 1980s. Like the US auto makers, only the airlines are in a state of decline around the travel industry. Hyatt and others strive to be the best and have a loyal customer base; based on their consistent quality of service: versus a system of bribery to keep your loyalty to a business that is completely the same as it's competitors.
