Originally Posted by
AAExPlat
To be fair...the merger COULD have been an amazing opportunity. Just think what would have been possible if FLIBS and his cohort had taken over the reigns. If UA would operate more like PMUA than PMCO and if management hadn't decided to sell out its customer base, this merger could have crated a really amazing airline. I guess it's still possible, but it will be far more difficult now that they have dug themselves such a deep ditch to climb out of.
I think its still pretty simple. A mia culpa, then telling us they are going to do it much closer to the pmUA way, block the few areas they think Elites were gaming the system, AND THEN, sit back and let the Route Network do the talking. They could have been counting money.
Had they done that from the start, the exodus would have been
from DL and AA and not
to.
So they have too many Elites. Let the Elites fight for the available E+ seats and UG's. Those that don't make their reservations first to get the E+ seats or have the status of the others to qualify to get UG'd, let them offer us (me) to buy the TOD's to get that occasional F seat.
Commitment and subsequent status has it's privileges. Any battle should be from within the Elite group. Not between the Elites and Kettles.
They still have to get the MX, PNR splitting and musical seat assignment problems fixed before that could work though.