Originally Posted by
bwhite
What does Permanent Choice Benefits mean?
The others have offered analogues of choice benefits, but as promos, not as standing
Permanent Choice features of the program. For instance, AA offered a promo with choice of benefits to flyers surpassing one tier (but not reaching the next, for GLD or PLT): at 40,000 for GLD, 75,000 for PLT, and 125,000 for EXP you could earn CB's.
Like much of that "Comparison" table, it is a strategic wording choice designed to hinder a full-information comparison. Any one of the four airlines in there could have produced a similar table, each carefully choosing its own best wordings and categories.