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Old Jan 14, 2015 | 11:32 pm
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Originally Posted by LETTERBOY
Of course not. Remember, US supposedly had a revenue based program ready to go, but shelved it when they started their merger efforts. Now they're focused on merging successfully and aren't thinking about this right now, once the merger is settled, if they think they can make more $$ by going revenue based, they'll do it in a heartbeat. OTOH, if they think they can make more $$ by keeping it the way it is, they'll do that. The only guarantee is that they will do what will make them the most $$, and they won't care too much if we like it or not.
US was always terrible at coming up with revenue ideas. Ben Baldanza (now CEO of Spirit) tried to implement a policy in which only Y, B, M, and H booking classes earned Preferred status and that failed miserably before the program even took off as US panicked with the number of CPs who told them, fine do that, and we are gone.
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