Originally Posted by
LegalTender
Enticing FL flyers into jumping ship to WN utilizing disparate loyalty programs is a real b**ch. This will not end well. MCO, ATL, MKE and BWI elites are destined to be orphaned without some corporate awakening. The rationale for sunsetting reciprocal status now totally escapes me.
+1. I'm in the same situation. Not having it doesn't affect me out of MEM, but I can't earn WN status out of MEM until they switch over, at which time I'll have nothing on WN and nothing useful to me on FL. At least in other markets people can maybe fly both. In any case, I can't see being loyal to WN with a full service carrier offering the same prices on the same routes, if I have no baggage needs and no status on either. Not saying I wouldn't fly them, but I wouldn't go out of my way to either.