Originally Posted by
LatAmCommuter
The most known lifetime elite status carriers I have seen are UA, DL, AA and KL.
I have only seen ONE case where someone was a lifetime Plat with CO. I met this guy in a MEX-IAH flight and he told me he had stuck with CO through both bankruptcies and one day he received a OnePass Plat card that read LIFETIME in the expiration date.
Anybody know if CO has any sort of rule for lifetime elite status?
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Your MEX-IAH buddy is right - you had to be a total CO fan when all that was happening. The top management was in total shambles - routes and flights evaporated and reappeared without apparent reason. But all the ordinary staff were incredible - they stuck at it as though nothing had happened - that's what made the airline last. Dedication like you never see from any CEO these days. I have not been using CO much of late but let me say that to this day there is something very special about CO that other airlines don't have.