<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by opus17:
We just hired a new company travel agent -- they say the airlines, especially American -- are aggressively comping anyone (especially United flyers) who they think will bring them business, to all but the top tier.</font>
Yep.
As I posted in the AA forum, I'm a UA 2P ("lowly Premier") who rarely flies AA. However, in the last year I've been building a lot of non-status miles on AA as a hedge, and also in hopes of getting 1MM some day (if AA is still around and still offers this!).
And I recently took advantage (I mean AAdvantage) of an offer from AA to comp my UA status. The offer was through my workplace, where AA recently became a preferred carrier. I received my Gold card the other day, and it's good till end of 02/04!
So, while I'm busily doing mileage runs on UA this year to keep my "lowly Premier" status on them through 02/04 (not much biz travel this year
), all I had to do for the equivalent on AA was send a fax!
Kathy
[This message has been edited by KathyWdrf (edited 08-23-2002).]