Originally Posted by
JSlo
Message to UA? I don't for a minute think anyone is sending a message to UA. I want to fly where I get the best elite treatment. It is UA that is sending a message to me, which is elite benefits are shrinking. Basically that in the last x period of time I cannot think of one elite benefit that has improved. Some have gotten worse, and if you wonder how bad it will get just go spend time on the CO board. No reason to believe it will be any different than how CO operates, which I have always thought was average/hokey.
How long ago is "x" period of time. Not counting the past 6 weeks, your UDU% was pretty good. Maybe you never ran out of e500's so that wouldn't be a change, but maybe you did, so that would be a plus, or maybe you got UDU'd on flights that you never would have used instruments for, so that too would be a plus. The ability to bring more people into E+ with you on your single status, as well as UDU those on your PNR for free...I can think of many others, one way UA and * awards...depending on how narrow of a time slot you make "x" time, if it is specific to make the argument, or a general period of time that is extensive to cover say the last 3 years, 5 years, 10 years...There are those that see the glass 1/2 full, others 1/2 empty, and some take a drop out to say it is worse than that, it is less than half full (maybe 49.999999 full) and scream about it. You may not be that last person, but depending on how you define x" time, you may be. 73/82 is pretty good, for sitting in F when buying Y. That is the holistic view of you since UDU. Singling out a 6 month period may or may not be representative yet. It's all on your perspective and how you spin it to yourself (and others.)