Ultra CK, coming soon (speculation)
Nov 10, 2018, 10:58 am
#31
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: DCA/IAD
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The days of dressing like Cary Grant or Lauren Bacall and flying are gone, gone, gone. I dress to travel to be comfortable, and unless I am going directly to a meeting or coming from one, casual is my M.O.
Nov 10, 2018, 11:48 am
#32
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Nov 10, 2018, 12:38 pm
#33
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: The FT AA forum, until it no longer wants me.
Programs: CK or bust
Posts: 1,913
Nov 11, 2018, 3:32 pm
#34
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: SFO
Programs: Aegean (Gold) American (EP)
Posts: 150
Nov 11, 2018, 4:05 pm
#35
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: RDU
Posts: 2,262
Based on the little I know about the criteria, if you don't get a CK invite for 2019 during the invite period next month, I'd be incredibly surprised...
Nov 11, 2018, 4:45 pm
#36
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,042
For CK not all EQM/EQD are created equal. Key is profitability to AA. So if the vast majority of that is on AA tickets on AA metal, then yes I’d think you’re a strong candidate. But if all of that were on some other OW airline, not so much...
Nov 14, 2018, 3:25 pm
#37
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: New York
Programs: AA Concierge Key, Marriott Titanium Elite, National Executive Elite
Posts: 326
I know this is thread is largely a joke, but is that what people really think of CKs? I know for damn sure I hate dressing up and I always wear jeans on the plane if possible. I certainly don't dress in super fancy clothes but I make my appearance decent. At the end of the day, I'm just a guy who happens to travel a lot for work. High EQD with lower EQMs equals a recipe for profitability and CK. The boarding first is really whatever... doesn't really make me feel special most of the time, and people often just stare at me in what appears to be disgust for having the privilege of boarding before them. We are most often flying in premium cabins, but boarding first when flying coach is a much higher value benefit to me.
Nov 16, 2018, 11:53 am
#38
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: In the sky.
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Except in MIA where draconian rules still apply if you get to the gate at group 5 & then agent calls group 6. Immediate use of baggage sizer is required, followed by mandatory checking of bag!!!!
Meanwhile, you board and approximately 1/3 of overhead space is still available.
#goingforgreat NOT!
Nov 16, 2018, 12:12 pm
#39
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Not sure yet
Programs: Marriott - Lifetime Platinum Premier, AA - CK
Posts: 263
I know this is thread is largely a joke, but is that what people really think of CKs? I know for damn sure I hate dressing up and I always wear jeans on the plane if possible. I certainly don't dress in super fancy clothes but I make my appearance decent. At the end of the day, I'm just a guy who happens to travel a lot for work. High EQD with lower EQMs equals a recipe for profitability and CK. The boarding first is really whatever... doesn't really make me feel special most of the time, and people often just stare at me in what appears to be disgust for having the privilege of boarding before them. We are most often flying in premium cabins, but boarding first when flying coach is a much higher value benefit to me.
Nov 16, 2018, 12:38 pm
#40
Join Date: Jul 2018
Posts: 13
I know this is thread is largely a joke, but is that what people really think of CKs? I know for damn sure I hate dressing up and I always wear jeans on the plane if possible. I certainly don't dress in super fancy clothes but I make my appearance decent. At the end of the day, I'm just a guy who happens to travel a lot for work. High EQD with lower EQMs equals a recipe for profitability and CK. The boarding first is really whatever... doesn't really make me feel special most of the time, and people often just stare at me in what appears to be disgust for having the privilege of boarding before them. We are most often flying in premium cabins, but boarding first when flying coach is a much higher value benefit to me.
Nov 16, 2018, 1:00 pm
#41
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: AA-EXP
Posts: 615
The only time I am worried about boarding early is when I am in the bulkhead. For some reason, people not in the bulkhead fill up the first spot they see with their carryon and backpacks and briefcases and etc, not leaving any space for the ones that have no choice about using underseat storage. Way too often I see poor bulkhead late-boarders have to put their items much further back, which makes disembarkation a pain.
Nov 18, 2018, 7:20 am
#42
Join Date: May 2004
Location: DFW-In Plano & CDG-In the 11th
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Posts: 3,209
Until I retired, all my business travel was in a suit and "hard shoes", with recreational travel in "business casual".
Now, because I too can truly afford it, my 100% recreational travel is both in F or J, and in golf shirt, shorts, and flaps. Hard shoes are for funerals.
In my business career, if I had worried about what "they" thought, instead of exceeding goal, exceeding expectations, and always striving to be #1 ...
I would be flying "Basic Economy", Spirit, or not flying at all.
Nov 18, 2018, 7:59 am
#43
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The snottiest, nastiest and most self-absorbed are often far from AA's most profitable customers. Many of the people who rise to the top in life and thus fly in paid premium cabins. got there by not standing on form or trying to stand out.
Thus, they are not the people who wear a suit on a plane unless there is a need at the other end and they are the people who aren't ranting at a GA doing her job by enforcing carry-on limits. They don't have gold-plated C-Level Plat tags on the bags and when the aircraft is delayed, don't loudly shout about their annual spend.
Thus, they are not the people who wear a suit on a plane unless there is a need at the other end and they are the people who aren't ranting at a GA doing her job by enforcing carry-on limits. They don't have gold-plated C-Level Plat tags on the bags and when the aircraft is delayed, don't loudly shout about their annual spend.
Nov 18, 2018, 11:00 am
#44
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The snottiest, nastiest and most self-absorbed are often far from AA's most profitable customers. Many of the people who rise to the top in life and thus fly in paid premium cabins. got there by not standing on form or trying to stand out.
Thus, they are not the people who wear a suit on a plane unless there is a need at the other end and they are the people who aren't ranting at a GA doing her job by enforcing carry-on limits. They don't have gold-plated C-Level Plat tags on the bags and when the aircraft is delayed, don't loudly shout about their annual spend.
Thus, they are not the people who wear a suit on a plane unless there is a need at the other end and they are the people who aren't ranting at a GA doing her job by enforcing carry-on limits. They don't have gold-plated C-Level Plat tags on the bags and when the aircraft is delayed, don't loudly shout about their annual spend.
Nov 18, 2018, 11:22 am
#45
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Western PA
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Posts: 441
On the other hand those of us who have paid for a service might be within our rights to expect that service to be provided on time and as advertised.
That's how it works in any other industry, but somehow airlines think they are doing us a great favor by letting us pay to give them our business.
That's how it works in any other industry, but somehow airlines think they are doing us a great favor by letting us pay to give them our business.
