Originally Posted by
kasi
Talked to LH these days: Almost everyone named HON in 2004 will keep its status. Only a very limited number of persons has been named HON during 2004 - 2006, so that there should be something like 3.000 + HONs around by now.
It was not a decision of LH that UA flights no longer count towards HON to restrict the number of HONs. It was rather a decision of UA because they simple couldnīt afford to pay for their share in the HON circle programm.
Well, if nearly all HONs requalified even though UA no longer counts then UA probably lost a lot of premium traffic from this group.