Originally Posted by
newsmanhoss
Interesting. I wonder if this was, in a small way, an attempt to compete against AirTran's elite program?
Could be, although to earn A+ status you need to earn 25 credits in a year, and normally that means 25 segments. MM Executive is also 25 credits or 20,000 miles. The new MM Aspire is lower, 18 credits or 15,000 miles.
Originally Posted by
MikeFromMKE
This is most likely another step in creating a unified frequent flyer program. Frontier has Ascent and Summit levels which now match up very well to Aspire and Executive.
I wonder if they will bump executive up to 25k miles. Anyways, good to see them reward a larger group of their frequent flyers.
Midwest's thresholds for elite are still lower than Frontier's, and I'd like to see them stay that way, personally. Hopefully a lower tier doesn't overly dilute the benefits afforded to
true frequent flyers like blucys with riff-raff like me who thinks my 42 segments in 2009 is a exceptional year.
