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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jetsetter777: I'm just pointing out that with your travel concentrated in the west, you'll end up on HP most of the time. I'll let you be the judge of whether that's a good thing or a bad thing http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif In terms of upgrades, HP will not upgrade you as a CO elite until you get to the airport. For what it's worth, I think there's only been one or two instances where I didn't get an upgrade on HP, those were flights back to the east coast.</font> |
When it comes to using your miles for Award travel note one big difference.
A domestic ticket on AA costs 25,000 miles, inventory permitting, irrespective of departure and return days of the week. A domestic ticket on CO costs 25,000 miles only if you have a Saturday stayover. With no Saturday stayover, a domestic flight award costs 50,000 miles on CO. For international travel the flights cost about the same when using miles. Mark, Dallas |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Diamond Dog: I think for Seattle and Northern Cal I will be on Alaska. Do they upgrade you for Continental Gold Onepass?</font> sorry, but no. Flights on AS count towrds status, but you don't get any perks or upgrades. |
MarkinDallas...CO domestic awards are 20K for most of the year...I believe there are 3 months Jun-Jul and August where it's 25K. You are correct however..about the Saturday night stay rule.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Steve M: If you somehow find yourself on a long HP flight and are worried about not getting an upgrade, you can always use your CO miles to upgrade your HP flight at any time after ticketing. </font> book the flight w/ HP FF get the upgrade, switch back to CO credit... |
Since CO and AA are the two programs that I'm most familiar with, let me offer my opinions on the most important differences:
In favor of CO: - Unlimited automatic advance confirmed upgrades on non-BusinessFirst flights on CO or NW (space-available, of course). This includes flights within and betweem contiguous 48 states, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Carribbean, some Central American destinations, and all flights from Guam except non-stops to HNL. - Also, free 2-hour airport upgrades on HP flights. - When redeeming miles for award travel, you can freely mix and match flights on CO, HP, NW, AS, and several others within the same itinerary. For example, let's say you wanted to fly LAX-HNL on an award ticket, but the outbound was not available on CO. You could book LAX-SEA on AS, SEA-HNL on NW, and HNL-LAX on CO for the same amount of miles (assuming of course that award seats were available on all segments). No other airline offers this flexibility (with the possible exception of the others within this alliance). Although my case above involves a routing that's a bit out of the way, there are many situations where a mixed-carrier routing is anything but out of the way, and greatly increases your availablility. This is especially true on international itineraries. To do the same on AA requires use of a oneworld award, which requires at least two non-AA carriers and typically doubles (at least) the number of miles required. - All CTO's and Presidents Clubs are still open for business. - In-flight amenities have not had significant cutbacks since 9/11 (the only one I can think of is lack of water bottles on HNL BusinessFirst flights). - International-quality service on Hawaii routes. In favor of AA: - Dedicated Platinum, and especially Executive Platinum, telephone desks that can really go the extra mile. - VIPOW systemwide upgrade certificates for EXP. - oneworld alliance, and better international partners outside of oneworld. - More coach fares are upgradeable with mileage internationally. - Power ports on more aircraft, especially on domestic routes. - 3-class service on coast-to-coast US routes. - Lifetime Gold and Platinum status for lifetime 1 million and 2 million mileage earnings. - Fully-flat FC seats available on international routes (albiet with prison matron service). I'm sure there's a lot that I've forgotten to include, but I think this is a good start. Since you're not in a hub of either airline, you do have a choice. |
Keep in mind that CO has no club affiliation at SNA.
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>>But when you're not upgraded, get used to no more MRTC - and the smallest seat pitch and biggest attitude problem in the air on CO coach.
I agree with the small seat pitch in coach. YMMV on the attitude. I have never gotten attitude on CO, just the opposite in fact. Experienced plenty of it on a previous carrier that I used before switching to CO. |
AA Plat here....will CO comp me CO plat?? ID like to try them if they do. DO I just call the onepass # or the Plat # which if someone could offer I can call them. Thanks
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mach92: AA Plat here....will CO comp me CO plat?? ID like to try them if they do. DO I just call the onepass # or the Plat # which if someone could offer I can call them. Thanks</font> I think someone said here or in another thread that AA plat is equal to CO gold. AA exec plat is CO Plat. Someone correct me if I am wrong. FYI CO plat is 75K miles/year. |
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