Remember the days when people PAID for first class and the service was impecable on most carriers?
What if all the airline head honchos woke up one day and said there will be no more mileage programs with ANY airline. You want first class, business class? - You pay for it and we guarantee the service (the type that existed in the 1960's, 70's). For those too young to know about this it was "white glove" service.
Seems to me this would fill the first and business class cabins with the true road warriors and not the mileage "grubbing, groveling" wannabe's for the $150 upgrade.
And, I'm not saying the "underclass" in coach should be neglected - good service (food, beverage, comfort, movies etc) should be upgraded to something much better than they get now (pretzels, 1 inch square milky ways, smaller seats). - I got better stuff from the worst neighbors on Halloween.
Does anyone see any wisdom in dumping ALL the mileage programs and going back to the way it was ?? Oh, and it wouldn't hurt if people "dressed up" like they were going to a better restaurant instead of always "dressing down". Any thoughts?
Yeah, you guessed right, I'm an airline employee.