Originally Posted by
channa
Why would the Plat even call if there were no benefit?
E.g., perhaps he was on the CO-operated LAX-HNL (Pan Am clipper flight) and wanted to get on the UA-operated flight since UA is the king of that route, before UA tells CO to stop service on it.
Perhaps. The diff between you and me is that you speculate that UA had nothing to do with CO going to a 737. Maybe you should ask a UA flight attendant who laughs and brags about it