Originally Posted by panda

United used to have a really funny "award." They sent you a funky plastic plaque (I mean really seedy molded plastic that was supposed to look like wood). It had a cheap metal insert saying you were a valued flyer or something. Then every time you went to a city you hadn't been to since they started keeping track, they sent you a little peel-off strip with the city name on it for you to add to the plaque. When you filled up your plaque they sent you another one.

I always felt this was the funniest and crummiest perk I ever got from an airline. I put the plaque up in my office for a while as a joke, but had to take it down because people started to think I was actually serious about it.

This must have been maybe late 70's or something.