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Old Jun 10, 2014 | 11:54 am
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Col Ronson
 
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Originally Posted by TravisSC
Ah but you're forgetting that there are far more of us minions in ‘lower-elite’ than the high rollers you imply are the rightful UA target market. If UA has done their math correctly and they can offset the potential loss then more power to them but your constant mantra of pay more get more is somewhat misaligned when used in the airline industry.
like ive said a hundred times, the revenue based frequent flier program is used by the majority, not minority, of the world's airlines. And those airlines are all still making money. And a lot of those airlines have worse quality than UA (hard to imagine huh).
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