Originally Posted by
fezzington
It's now been made mandatory as of Sept. 2. (I think I forewarned of this in a post here at some point)
Please write in if you don't like it. Although, be warned that if you're on FT, you're likely not the target audience for these pitches anyways, and your feedback may not mean as much as it usually would as a 1K/GS.
Yes, I remember that post.
And I did write in, and while you're right that we're not the target audience, it's going to take a lot of credit card sign-ups to make up for a HVF defection. (I'm not an HVF, but..
I still recall the first time that I saw one of these (on US). It made the entire airline feel cheap. (Of course, US already had a reputation for that...) It was the first time that I had flown US in years, and it certainly didn't make me want to go back.