Originally Posted by
HoustonFlyGuy
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.
With all due respect, there is more history to that poster's opinions than I was referring to in my comment. I can assure you there
is a chip
On topic - I'm a very frequent CO passenger, and have been for most of the last decade. I will finish at around 150k EQM this year, and have had similar travel patterns every year. Quite simply - I have no loyalty to CO other than the fact that I've found their program to work. I could certainly switch to AA or DL for the flights I mainly travel on, and of course I've looked into the details of these to see if it made sense.
But the fact is that I've seen no discernible drop in upgrades. I'm sure the vast majority of others haven't either. I obviously don't fly on Y/B fares all the time (otherwise I'd be PPlat) so I'm receiving most of these as EUAs, and occasional M-ups.
I'm simply not seeing this "bait and switch" that a handful of you seem so obsessed about.