Originally Posted by
JSFox
DL made a choice. I wasn't happy with it, but they did give ample notice of when it would take effect.
DL made the choice to make Amex the EXCLUSIVE credit card partner of the combined airline effective sometime in the fall. So until then, USB should still be the EXCLUSIVE partner for NWA, right? In what, February or March, NW/DL started to heavily promote the Amex card
and they enabled us to link our DL and NW accounts to transfer miles between them. So USB's partnership with NWA really ain't that exclusive, is it? I know that I have just over 90,000 miles in my WP account that were earned on my DL Amex since then.
If you want to argue that they're just trying to facillitate the merger and this is all one big coincidence, then answer this: Why can we transfer RDMs seemlessly and instantly but we can't transfer EQMs/MQMs? Well...because transfering RDMs makes the Skymiles Amex valuable to Worldperks members right now, which definitely goes straight to DL's bottom line where transfering EQMs does exactly zip for them, which leads to...
Originally Posted by
JSFox
Note that DL settled, out of court, just for US Bank giving customers EQM's. And, I don't believe the miles or EQM's are profitable for NWA/DL.
This is a joke, right? Two billion for a slug of miles, a healthy chunk of which will expire without being redeemed, is not profitable? I could use some unprofitable business like that on my month-end reports.
Originally Posted by
JSFox
There are many many instances in corporate decision-making where doing 'whats right' may not necessarily be best for the bottom line or for shareholders, but you still do whats right anyway.
You're 100% correct, this just doesn't happen to be an example of it.
Originally Posted by
JSFox
It is not even remotely unfathomable for Bob Soukup to have pushed the lawsuit forward purely for the good of NWA customers.
Yes, it is even remotely unfathomable. Particularly given the reporting structure at DL I would doubt Bob was even consulted on the matter.
Originally Posted by
JSFox
You certainly shouldn't be gullible, but if you become cynical you'll be miserable.
The opposite of being cynical is not being gullible, it's being naive. I would humbly suggest that a healthy measure of cynicism, in dealings with airlines and credit card companies, will lead to far less misery than a healthy measure of naivetee.