Originally Posted by
montezume
Good point. I personally feel that AC should start adding tiers to SE based on spend.
How about SE CHARITY, SAPPHIRE, TITANIUM and the highest category, SSE (super SUPER elite). Then they can start really distinguishing between those who achieve the status through status runs, and those who really add value to the brand. Plus, they could make nice charity luggage tags.
Given the reduction of mileage on low fares even non-AC flights, there's no real value in trying for SE through MRs. Let's face it, those who work for companies that pay high fares are now the monarchs of the air. As I wrote months ago, and as was seized on in the NYTimes this past weekend, the airlines have joined the gap between rich and poor and top elite tiers are now comprised of the 1% just as the rest of NAmerican society. Enjoy the ride on the largess of your employer or client...and their shareholders and the taxpayers who subsidize those high fare deductions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/op...ugly.html?_r=0