Originally Posted by
star_world
Help us out here - is the chip on your shoulder about the fact that Y/B/M ticket holders can trump the PP here, or that they also offered it for sale?
If it's the former, isn't that exactly what CO should be doing - rewarding higher fare paying pax on that flight? In many / most cases these will be the PPs anyway, since that's the only chance of actually getting to that level.
I noticed the absence of your trademark "tens of dollars" diatribe when the buy-up offer was actually relatively substantial
It's not a chip, it's actually how many frequent flyer's feel. Despite the fine print, the profit mandate and the excuses of the CO cool-aid cadre, I don't like losing a perk, especially when it's a "bait and switch" or at best opaque.
This is a famously cyclical business. CO currently can prevail in their efforts to marginalize the benefts to FFer's. In the future they will come back, begging for business and offer a whole new package of goodies, always have, always will.