Originally Posted by
DCEsquire
Hmmm...Maybe this is why the RCC matrons have been reportedly surly toward FTers doing MRs. Maybe they knew this was coming. I don't understand how they can get away with this.
Get away with what? The rule change? Or the RCC matrons being surly?
If it's the rule change -- why wouldn't they get away with it? For better or worse, it's their airline, so they make the rules.
In one of the 2007 quarterly earnings calls, one of the UA execs said that UA would be aggressively making changes to "limit overdelivery on low-margin activity." The ending of the 500-mile minimum, the change to the rules about VDB credit vouchers, and this change all seem to be attempts to do that. They are all smart business decisions.
You will still be able to buy tickets with no minimum stay, they will just cost more. Businesses for whom it makes sense to pay the higher price will pay it. Mileage runners (of which I am one) won't. That's not a bad thing for the bottom line at all.