Originally Posted by
KingCanute
Otherwise I guess it might just be better to fly F for the additional backside kissing that may offer. Constantly adding higher membership levels runs the risk of absurd elitism, which given their emphasis on top quality J rather than F may also be contrary to QR's own ethos.
Come again? So offering three tiers is not elitist but four tiers is absurd elitism? Ditto QR’s very strict line between aspects of the J and Y experiences which almost no other airline on the planet enforces as strictly? Ditto QR’s constant obsession on attaching bits of paper to my hand luggage to denote what ‘class’ I am? I find this a slightly bizarre suggestion, personally.
I note that the most sophisticated airlines on the planet which make by far the largest profits (the US airlines) typically have four or more tiers to their FFP. No one would call AA ‘elitist’ with a straight face.