Originally Posted by PunishedEdmontonian
Just finished my earliest requalification for Gold last weekend and in fitting tribute failed to get U/G on EWR-MSP and even on the NW Codeshare MSP-YEG despite being on an H fare.
One bonus, I got to sit in NW comfortable Y seats with decent pitch ^ as opposed to what I agree are
CO's Y prison benches.
In any event, as
cigarman will see when he eventually gets to my retraction e-mail for the DO in IAH, with the termination of YEG-IAH on February 15th I have no CO flights to take from my hometown.
Since I've held a NW # for 13+ years and with DL only starting service to SLC mid-December on CRJ's and both being SkyTeam, it looks pretty grim for me to be comped to either. Anyone else tried in circumstances like this?
I left AC and won't return. HP comped me when they introduced service here in YEG a couple of years ago and one week after I got it their affiliate, Mesa, promptly reconfigured all their CRJ's to drop first class!
I then stuck to CO.
AS/QX never run on time on their Q400s and I'm sick of overnighting in SEA (3 for 3 my last 3 trips
). UAX runs CRJs only to DEN and ORD and they are Star Alliance with the useless types over at AC.
In other words, I'm
A Man Without A Program and I'm not all that enthused about CO right now.
Any ideas?
You'll have to implement the NW switcheroo. What you do is book your NW flights using your Co gold number. Then when you get to the airport you switch to your NW number. NW will continue to recognize gold status throughout the entire Itin and credit miles to NW. Of course once you get NW status you can use the NW number instead. I have been doing this for the ast year with my CO plat. I become NW plat next week, The only thing you lose is fewer bonus milies as you work your way up the food chain.
BTW I do the switch at the kiosk where there is a tab to udate FF#.
It's the clsoes you'l get to a status match.