Originally Posted by
Gargoyle
The OP is referring to the legendary "flight club". However:
1. You don't talk about flight club.
2. You don't talk about flight club.
3. When someone says stop earning miles, or goes limp about mileage, even if he's just faking it, the flight is over.
4. Only two guys to a flight.
5. One flight at a time.
6. They fly without belts or shoes.
7. The flights go on as long as they have to.
8. If this is your first night at flight club, you have to fly.
Never heard of it. There was Flying Colonel, which really didn't have any official benefits. It was generally granted by Delta market to "high-flyers". Then, there was the very old EP program. Again, it didn't have a lot of "benefits" per se, but it was granted by Delta Marketing to senior leaders (think chairmen and CEOs) of companies with very significant relationships with Delta. After that came "White Envelope" EP. That was a program that had actual defined benefits. After the first year, they actually published a qualification criteria for existing EPs to "re qualify". Finally, they created the official Diamond level. According to former EPs, there is no longer any type of "special partnership" program.
By the way, all the programs I listed were from the pre-merger Delta Air Lines. I do not know what, if any "special" programs the premerger NWA had.