Originally Posted by
Cbmaz
Not true. Per new guidelines, ALL CO/UA elites (Silver, Gold, Platinum, 2P, 1P, 1K ect...) recieve hotels for any eason if they are stranded overnight due to cancellations, misconnections with no other available flights, including weather.
This is well-known as the international policy, however, I would be extremely suprised if cheap-o-CO would pay for a hotel for a Silver on a domestic itinerary with a weather misconnect, let alone a Plat/1K. To quote sfogate from a few days ago (so useful I saved the language):
"Domestic itineraries are only given a discounted hotel rate payable by the customer for delays or cancelations beyond CO's control: that would be weather. BUT if you are on a delayed flight of 4 or more hours between 10p-6am we will provide you with a hotel voucher. If you are connecting to/from an international destination all elites are eligible for a hotel voucher for delays/cancelations/diversion both within or beyond our control."
I'd like to see someone confirm that this policy exists for DOMESTIC ONLY itins.