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Old Mar 14, 2025 | 1:49 pm
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Originally Posted by COTraveler123
Sounds like you would not want to fly Southwest with that status anyway. The avergae WN flyer in a city like BNA or SMF doesn't have your status. A WN flyer without a high level status on an airline like AA would fly them once and see how bad the service is on AA as a non status flyer and go right back to WN even with these changes for the nonstop. AA is still worse on a connection than the new WN on a nonstop.
Don’t diss my 916 peeps. I happen to have lifetime Gold (million mile) status in UA. My upgrades rarely clear because we have many 1Ks - some probably Bay Area transplants.

WN doesn’t offer lifetime status. It is a transactional game. So I will transact with WN when it meets specific criteria and as few times as possible…

If WN offered a lifetime program that would be notable.
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