<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ScottC:
Show your card? why would you ever need to show your card at the gate?</font>
At Check-In, not at the gate. My mistake. Sometimes the EC number is not in the reservation by mistake and then I have to show a card.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Blue has no value whatsoever besides earning miles and if you book online you usually have your number in it anyway.</font>
That's not true: waiting list priority over Non-EC-members, 24h OLCI, seat & meal reservation, discounts at Avis and more. I love BA for this!
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">All I am pointing out is that there must be many millions of blue members who never use the card, these members cost BA money.</font>
And all I'm saying is: providing a membership card for ALL new members makes the EC more attractive. Especially when many other FF programs do not give out cards to new members.
It's the same as advertising. Would you recommend not to do any advertising, "because it costs BA money"?
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I also paid for my gold myself without any company travel so I know the crack of the whip.</font>
Congrats! But there are a lot of elite members out there who have not.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Getting back to the original topic... some weeks ago I ha a thread about the additional perks I'd like to see for gold, some of those would fit nicely into an additional level.</font>
Yes, that was an interesting thread, but I'm still not convinced about a new tier level.
They can make gold better, no prob with that. But EC should still be open for new members.
Regards,
Hammer
[Edited for typos]
[This message has been edited by Hammer (edited 01-27-2003).]