Originally Posted by
Cap'n Benj
As a BA base emerald you're nowhere near the front of the upgrade queue on domestics on AA
If you're traveling enough to earn GGL on AA you'd be pretty much guaranteed an upgrade to F domestically every single flight!
Otherwise your point does make sense to me that beyond the basic 3 tiers, some kind of revenue based system would make sense, ensuring that the customers delivering most revenue are best rewarded
I've just flown AA First domestically and far from being impressive. The aircraft were dirty, food was below standard and the seats were old and clunky - very uncomfortable 5 hours flying cross country.
I may as well be seated in coach rather than first but AA is generous with the BA tier points on the cross country flights in First so I'm not complaining from that point of view. Just make sure to eat up well at a cafe in the airport (forget the lounge as it's also a horror).
When will the US carriers offer lounges and inflight products to match that of Asian carriers? They just need to look and see and improve on the horror that they are providing on domestic US flights!