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Old Nov 21, 2010 | 11:56 pm
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Originally Posted by dsquared37
Mine says 27.1.
Good luck trying to get UA to sell you 1/10th of an SFO/ORD round trip.

Originally Posted by mrswirl
Originally Posted by Mike Jacoubowsky
All this rationalization and concern makes me wonder if maybe it should just be entirely revenue-based, nothing else. Maybe a secret formula based upon weighted fares for each flight (what you paid vs the average for that flight), or perhaps not secret at all, just weigh each fare based upon fare class.

It would certainly make it a lot more difficult to plan, but in terms of worth to United, it would be a lot more transparent.
I brought that topic up about 10 pages ago but it was quickly deemed "dead on arrival" and a "very bad idea".
That's because you have no plan for incorporating elite qualification on *A non-UA/non-CO carriers.

Both Mike and I mentioned that EQMs could be based on fare class, which would solve the issue of flying non COUA carriers that are partners, and you soundly rejected that idea, (though I mentioned that there would be protests). Hence your idea is DOA and very bad. You appear to have undisclosed issues with *A. The rest of us prefer to leverage COUA's partnerships with other carriers to get us to places COUA will never be able to. As someone who spends about $25K per year on *A flights, COUA and otherwise, I'd be happy to make 1K that way.

Originally Posted by ExCrew
Over 1,000 posts, and zero responses from UA. Drop and flush.
Untrue. I'd say by 500 posts, UA partially got the message, and added a graceful transition to the new CR-1 policy.
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