Originally Posted by
jragosta
If AA personnel go on strike, I wonder if other airlines will be more lenient about matching AA status? If I need to switch to another airline, I'd prefer to go to someone who would grant me the equivalent of my EXP status.
In my experience, airlines are extremely reluctant to match a top-tier status - unless perhaps you are attached to a large corporate travel department which could negotiate a match for all of their top-tier ffs. (kinda funny - a different type of "collective bargaining" in response to the collective bargaining which may result in a strike). One other thing: for a union to strike an airline as large as AA, neither side can afford for the strike to go on for very long. Most likely, a strike would not last long enough for it to be worth other carriers' whiles to do status matches. Ymmv.