Originally Posted by
easygoingal
Back when TWA was in business, that was exactly what they did. Your frequent flyer status was based on either total miles flown or the amount of money spent.
If it was based strictly on $$ spend, then I would still be super Platinum but my aunt on the other hand would probably not even make Silver.
Not sure why airlines don't do that.
And when corporate travel departments got wind of TWA's methodology of rewarding customers for dollars spent, corporate travel dept. quickly prohibited their employees from flying on TWA. TWA no longer exists, so the rest is history.