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Old Nov 13, 2014, 9:16 am
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ChevyCruze
 
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: JAX/St Augustine, FL
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Originally Posted by saneman
So many things to miss
1) The upgrades -paid or free.
2) the flight credits. as someone who flies a lot on the east coast, I don't accumulate as many miles domestically.
3) more direct flight choices from ATL
4) the cheap fares: though this has been less frequent since WN took over. I used to fly on quite a few spontaneous trips with those two week advance fares of 70-100 bucks each way. In fact, I have stopped taking spontaneous trips that I doubt I will retain A List for 2016.
Personally, I'm going to miss the AirtranU student standbye flights. I remember many $49 o/w ATL>MEM trips to go home from college. Was only bumped once during several years.
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