gregtay

Opps... right.. forgot.. i thought that was back after the merger.

Thanks all for your comments. I have been Alaska MVPG for about 10 years a few of those years i also achieved United Plat.... so i do understand the system and the limitations of the situation i am in. In the system i am on a DL flight.. so AS can't really touch the reservation. Delta could not (or at least they never have) been able to give me prefered seats on Alaska metal flights booked under a DL codeshare flight. Basically Delta recognizes my status for DL/NW flights.. but no help on the AS flights. A call to the MVPG line fixes this and they look up my flight and move me to a Gold seat in coach.. but can't upgrade me even with space allows... which just seems silly (Again.. i understand the details of the ticketing system and why this isn't easy... but once they verify i am Gold you would think they could just override everything and give me a 1st class seat.

One other comment on this... because i am flying a a DL itenerary that includes a AS codeshare the flights don't seem to get posted to my Alaska account automatically.. again.. it's the system. In the past i have had to go up to the AS website and request credit for the AS portion of the trip (the DL/NW flight shows up automatically.. but not the AS leg. I had the same thing happen last week. I flew on DL from SEA-AMS-BCN and MUC-AMS-SEA... but for some reason when my travel assistant booked the flights they were booked through KLM on DL codeshare flights. Everything was DL/NW metal except the AMS-BCN and MUC-AMS flights which were KLM. KLM automatically reported the KLM metal flights to AS for milage credit... but to get the credit for the DL flights i have to send in the info to AS... reason?.. because KLM doesn't typically report milage for codeshare flights to a 3rd party milage partner (they only report miles on their metal.. and at the same time DL/NW aren't going to report anything because I flew them on KLM ticketstock.. so they leave that up to KLM. Kind of a pain.. but not a huge deal... just the way the system works and at least i understand the limitations. Here is another example... You can book an AA ticket from LAX-NRT-SIN. The NRT-SIN flight is via a JAL codeshare flight (JAL metal.) AA isn't going to report those miles to Alaska. and they shouldn't... even through i am on an AA ticket i don't get credit for the JAL flight on my Alaska account... becuase JAL and AS don't have a partnership. Its just one of those things you have to becareful of. I try to fly the longest legs (international legs) of my flights on non-codeshare flights (if the longest flight is on DL then I book a DL flight number.)

Anyway.. again.. not a big deal.. i one of of the happiest ASMVPG's around.. i just love AS and look forward to every flight... and dispite the changes over the years i still love everything about AS. Okay.. you could bring back the original snack pack with the peanut butter and vitC pack.. the new anytime pack is just lame.

Cheers all.... a few more meetings in Tokyo then off to NRT in a few hours... for another day in the air... and even though NW World Biz Class is really nice.. it's isn't home.. but when i get on the AS flight in HNL and sink into my coach seat with the freindly AS crew... well thats when i know i am almost home.