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Old Mar 12, 2015, 4:30 pm
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Originally Posted by miasmal
maybe just me, but I don't like volunteering info unless I get something in return.
Perhaps if you tell them how you feel you'll get a better airline in return.

Originally Posted by PushingTin
I think the economy isn't nearly as robust as people are making it out to be- and I think the airlines are notcing some softness in demand.

You can treat 1Ks like crap when you are filling Y all the time- but if your load factors start to drop off, Gold-to-1Ks may save your bacon.
It's a cyclical business, indeed, and the apologists who claim the current appalling situation is the "new normal" are wrong. UA can treat good customers like garbage in boom times, but when the bottom drops out of this six-year bull market there will have to be a ceasefire in the war on elites.
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