Another positive change for the UA side is that they now allow you to go 15% over the MPM [Maximum Permitted Mileage] for award bookings...
The NH joint-venture which now allows us to earn full miles plus elite bonuses on almost all fare classes.
You can now earn unlimited SWUs/CR1s rather than a limit of 6/10 each year... An improvement for those who flies north of 150K each year...
75K flyers will earn CR1s and get upgrade priority over those who flies 50,000-74,999 miles...
That is all I can think for now...
Originally Posted by
channa
Neutral. The flights were available as alliance partners. I booked several UA flights using CO miles before they announced the intention to merge.
I would say that soon we will have the luxury of using SWUs on both airlines, CR1s on both airlines, get the appropriate upgrade priority on both airlines, etc...
I know you are an UA 1K and CO Plat, but most people do not hold top tier status on both airlines before the merger, so really it is a more positive change rather than a negative change...
However, with capacity cuts, more flights will be more elite heavy and that won't help much either... Hopefully those capacity cuts are not long term cuts and capacity will increase as the economy continues to improve...