Is anyone else starting to question their loyalty to CO?
Nov 29, 2010, 5:53 pm
#151
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Nov 29, 2010, 6:07 pm
#152
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Feel free to keep making, blanket statements that have absolutely zero basis in any sort of fact, nor make any sort of contribution to the dialogue whatsoever. But that's your game, so have fun with it.
I'd say the practice of extorting "tens of dollars" from your best customers so they don't get jumped in the UG queue is "bad enough", along with the worst Y seats in the industry, selling exit row seats out from the feet of your elites, etc. and etc.
I'd say the practice of extorting "tens of dollars" from your best customers so they don't get jumped in the UG queue is "bad enough", along with the worst Y seats in the industry, selling exit row seats out from the feet of your elites, etc. and etc.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:13 pm
#153
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Nov 29, 2010, 7:14 pm
#154
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OK, so I don't understand the thread title. Am I going to be loyal to CO? What CO? They are gone. I am not leaving CO, they left me. And they left the city of Houston. Actually I don't care at all about status. I do absolutely no domestic travel. All I want are my BF reward flights to Europe. So for me I will be looking for the best deal. As far as I am concerned CO has left the building.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:16 pm
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Nov 29, 2010, 7:16 pm
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Nov 29, 2010, 7:16 pm
#157
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Anyone seriously considering dropping CO in favor of DL should pay attention to the statement above. If booking awards at low redemptions is important to you, my recent experience in the top tier of both programs suggests that you'll be much happier with CO than DL.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:19 pm
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OK, so I don't understand the thread title. Am I going to be loyal to CO? What CO? They are gone. I am not leaving CO, they left me. And they left the city of Houston. Actually I don't care at all about status. I do absolutely no domestic travel. All I want are my BF reward flights to Europe. So for me I will be looking for the best deal. As far as I am concerned CO has left the building.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:23 pm
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In September I acquired a DL BE award ticket JFK-SIN 10 days out.
Not only did DL have inventory at the lowest level, but they were the only airline to have any J inventory at all.
There was nothing at all on any *A carrier, except for a waitlist on SQ that would have required 400,000 points.
After all the horrors stories I had heard about DL's award redemptions, I was shocked, but I suppose it just demonstrates that YMMV...
Nov 29, 2010, 7:28 pm
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There will always be a naysayer here or somewhere else who will tell the potential jumper that they will be sorry if they leave. Better the known devil than the unknown one. CO / UA is betting right now that you are right and that this is all merely venting.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:29 pm
#161
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DL is great for domestic upgrades.
DL is horrible for advance mileage redemptions. If you are lucky and they have unsold seats, they will open up low-level award availability close to departure.
More importantly to me, mileage upgrades on DL are worthless as their M fares track their discount J fares within a couple hundred dollars. At least with CO I can actually get some value out of the miles on mileage upgrades.
DL is horrible for advance mileage redemptions. If you are lucky and they have unsold seats, they will open up low-level award availability close to departure.
More importantly to me, mileage upgrades on DL are worthless as their M fares track their discount J fares within a couple hundred dollars. At least with CO I can actually get some value out of the miles on mileage upgrades.
Nov 29, 2010, 7:42 pm
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Nov 29, 2010, 8:33 pm
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Nov 29, 2010, 8:35 pm
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Mine has been precisely the opposite.
In September I acquired a DL BE award ticket JFK-SIN 10 days out.
Not only did DL have inventory at the lowest level, but they were the only airline to have any J inventory at all.
There was nothing at all on any *A carrier, except for a waitlist on SQ that would have required 400,000 points.
After all the horrors stories I had heard about DL's award redemptions, I was shocked, but I suppose it just demonstrates that YMMV...
In September I acquired a DL BE award ticket JFK-SIN 10 days out.
Not only did DL have inventory at the lowest level, but they were the only airline to have any J inventory at all.
There was nothing at all on any *A carrier, except for a waitlist on SQ that would have required 400,000 points.
After all the horrors stories I had heard about DL's award redemptions, I was shocked, but I suppose it just demonstrates that YMMV...
DL does release seats close to departure.
Nov 29, 2010, 8:37 pm
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Yep. Been there, did that. Was plat on DL last year and status matched to CO. ATL sucks, and I had so many skymiles but couldn't redeem jack. Star Alliance is much better than Sky Team IMO.