Originally Posted by
colonius
Some people will justify anything. If the new United should throw out E+ and upgrade benefits completely, I am sure you will be there to justify it.
The 1k that achieves his/her status solely on those $300 roundtrip transcons (if you can find them) is probably an Urban myth or, at the very least, a negligibly small minority.
I am not a really big spender, but from this day on my $10,000 to $15,000 in air-travel spending per year is going to AA. Glad I did the status match.
UA does not want my business. Fine, it is going away.
Again, I want to be clear: I am not defending CO's approach nor do I agree with it. In fact, this is why I left CO a number of years ago.
I'm just trying to understand it.
As far as the $300 transcon, last week, I flew JFK-ONT for $302 round trip on DL. As a DL SM Silver I was upgraded on 2 of the 4 segments.