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Old Feb 14, 2008, 12:24 am
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ClueByFour
 
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This is going to piss off a number of high yield markets, particularly the shuttle.

It also really only works if everyone else does it. If US is the only major that pulls this crap, it's really unlikely to stick.

Oh, and a "quick ticketing" fee? Why don't they just say that they are fishing for revenue--it costs no more to ticket an award reservation 2 days before than it does 2 months before. And they know it.

The ultimate kick in the teeth is the remainder of the e-mail. Apparently, Tempe takes people for idiots. To wit:

Dividend Miles members still get award travel for as low as 25,000
miles.
As does everyone else. And, as a matter of fact, Dividend Miles members used to be able to travel for as little as 20,000 miles. Or did they think our memory was that short?

And, we offer the most generous Preferred upgrade windows in
the industry.
For the worst product. And, putting that aside, they are really putting the screws to the people who fly a lot of RJs under 500 miles--you won't ever see an upgrade, nor now will you have the miles to upgrade even if you wanted to. Brilliant!

Earn miles when you fly to any of our 230 destinations
in the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. You can
also earn and redeem miles to the nearly 900 destinations served by
the Star Alliance.
Just don't plan on doing it tomorrow. That'll cost you.

Thanks for continuing to fly with US.
Not bloody likely. The only question worth knowing the answer to here is if one still gets 500 miles to credit a Star alliance partner (notably United). If that's the case, I predict a whole slew of new 1P/2P/1K this year and next.

Of course, Tempe being the typical underhanded organization that it is, they announce this after people have been racking up miles and segments for 6 weeks. I'm betting there are a ton of folks who either would not have flown nor credited DM with their flights in January had they known this before the 1st of the year.
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