Originally Posted by
mre5765
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.
So you agree that a revenue-based program makes sense but because *
I*, personally, in one online posting have not figured out all the minutea surrounding revenue sharing among *A partners you reject it?
I'm sure there is a way to equitably attribute $$ spent on partners towards a revenue-based program - I don't know what the right balance is... but the larger point still stands that a revenue-based model is inherently more fair than an arbitrary mileage/segments-based one.