Originally Posted by
keeton
If you listen to the unedited interview - which was a pretty straightforward question and answer session - you would have seen that the interviewer mentioned on more than one occasion that he didn't care about the business traveler ("who _has_ to travel"). The interviewer (who is the consumer reporter for Ch. 11) was focusing on leisure traveler issues.
The editing was a little creative.
Sorry, I did not listen to the unedited interview before posting. But I am a DM and I am NOT a business traveler!
I pay for my own tickets, as cheaply as possible, but do what it takes to reach 125K miles each year. And I do not rely on AMEX MQM's to inflate my total....it is all BIS miles!
My previously stated concerns are solely from a leisure traveler perspective. If my employer or my client was paying for my tickets, I would let them pay for BE for me and I'd save the SWU's for my own personal use. But because I am always flying on my own dime, I would certainly like to be able to use my SWU's for what they were supposedly intended....to upgrade international flights! And I want to do it at a reasonable cost!! I don't care if I might have to wait until Delta is absolutely positive they can't sell the seat to someone else, just let me use them on a space-available basis an hour before departure. That would keep this low-fare "leisure DM" very happy.