<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JS:
I've also read that many people pay low fares sometimes and high fares sometimes. So what?!! "Low" and "high" are merely benchmarks. Calculate the average fare you pay, and see where you fit in the pack. </font>
The average fare, whatever it is, is now rewarded less than it was under the current plan. That is a benefit reduction, plain and simple, in a string of benefit reductions.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by JS:
Airline A offers full Q credit on low fares, a 50% Q bonus on mediocre fares, and double Q on high fares.
Airline B is evil. They give full Q credit only on the high fares, a 25% Q demerit on mediocre fares, and only half Q on the low fares. Bad, bad, bad!
Which is better? A, you say? Wait, there's more...
Airline A requires 50,000 Q to be Silver, 100,000 Q to be Gold, and 200,000 Q to be Platinum.
Airline B requires 25,000 Q to be Silver, 50,000 Q to be Gold, and 100,000 Q to be Platinum.
Now which is better?
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You left one contrast out
Airline B says "we're making things better by charging you more and taking away services" in public announcements led by a vulgar, lying blowhard.
Did airline B say "we're facing a hard economic reality, and therefore we're cutting back to try to stay afloat" No. Real men and women are honest. Lying scum call press conferences to create a smokescreen to fool as many potential customers as they can while crawling like worms in the darkness to rot-away their services while they hope nobody is looking...and then lie about how it is really better than it was.
This is what you want to defend? The pattern of deceit and contempt shown by Bethune, Kellner and Bergsrud?
[This message has been edited by NJDavid (edited 09-19-2003).]