Originally Posted by
travelinmanS
No.
United is in a position of power due to consolidation of the industry. They don’t have to be as nice to maintain their customer base as they did with 7-8 big competing airlines. The government of the United States is responsible for your diminished benefits not you.
Okay. But then did our behavior cause the consolidation of the 7-8 competing airlines into what we have now?
I couldn't help thinking (even at the time) how much benefit I got from being a 1K. I remember flying 150K miles per year and getting enough FF points to fly the entire family every year to anyway: i) Australia in Y, ii) Hawaii in F iii) Europe in J. It was crazy good.