Flying Colonel
Feb 20, 2003, 7:12 pm
#61
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: AUS
Programs: DL Flying Colonel
Posts: 4,023
Never a letter, but I did get a plaque to hang on the wall.
Feb 20, 2003, 7:16 pm
#62
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Winter Garden, FL
Programs: Delta DM-3MM United Gold-MM Marriott Lifetime Titanium Hertz President's Circle
Posts: 13,498
I got a card with no expiration date and a nice plaque signed by Robert Coggin (remember him?).
Bruce
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Bruce
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Feb 20, 2003, 10:02 pm
#63
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Portland OR Double Emerald (QF and AA), DL PM/MM, Starwood Plat
Posts: 19,589
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mikey1003:
We need this now, more than ever, because after next year.... MANY OF US WILL NOT BE PMs anymore
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We need this now, more than ever, because after next year.... MANY OF US WILL NOT BE PMs anymore
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Feb 20, 2003, 10:06 pm
#64
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: He who dies with the most miles wins!!
Programs: WorldPerks Demoted again to SE, DL 3.1MM Hilton Diamond, SPG Gold
Posts: 11,674
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by number_6:
But you will be if you can just get to be a real 4MM instead of an almost 4MM. Then it is lifetime PM. There are some benefits to the new DL plan -- they just figure most people will die before reaching 4MM miles on the new terms, so they can afford to be generous.
Originally posted by mikey1003:
We need this now, more than ever, because after next year.... MANY OF US WILL NOT BE PMs anymore </font>
We need this now, more than ever, because after next year.... MANY OF US WILL NOT BE PMs anymore
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Feb 20, 2003, 10:08 pm
#65
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Laguna Beach, CA; Former DL everything, now AA/AS everything; SPG Plat; Marriott Plat; and all that other stuff!!
Posts: 245
I still have my FC cards and bag tags, and might have a letter in my old airline collectable stuff (with WA timetables from the 40's). Last FC card expired in 1997....and then the rules changed! My plaque is signed by Hollis Harris...who is now President of World Airways (freight/charter and thinking of going sched again!). Fun times those were!!
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Feb 20, 2003, 11:50 pm
#66
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 1,739
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by bdschobel:
I got a card with no expiration date and a nice plaque signed by Robert Coggin (remember him?).
Bruce</font>
I got a card with no expiration date and a nice plaque signed by Robert Coggin (remember him?).
Bruce</font>
Maybe some of you have fond memories of him and think he was a great guy. I never met the man but that incident made an impression.
Feb 21, 2003, 2:59 am
#67
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: AUS
Programs: DL Flying Colonel
Posts: 4,023
It may not matter in the end. If DL keeps making the type of changes and decisions they have been, being a FC or 4MM on a defunct airlines wont matter.
Feb 21, 2003, 7:50 am
#68
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: LAX, SAN, ORD, MAA & COK
Programs: AA EXP 6+ MM, AC, DL (MM) & LT SC; All Airlines 10+MM, Hilton LT Diamond, Marriott LT Plat
Posts: 749
Any non-FC members out there with Lifetime CRC membership? In the past few years my CRC cards have an had annual expiration date instead of LIFETIME and so I'm hanging on to my old card that has very faded LIFETIME lettering.
Does anyone know if the non-FC lifetime memberships have been taken away and converted to annual? I posted this question earlier and did not get any responses.
I called the CRC headquarters in Atlanta and no one there seems to know the answer.
Mine was acquired via the Pan Am Clipper Club for which I paid about $1,000 nearly 25 years ago.
Does anyone know if the non-FC lifetime memberships have been taken away and converted to annual? I posted this question earlier and did not get any responses.
I called the CRC headquarters in Atlanta and no one there seems to know the answer.
Mine was acquired via the Pan Am Clipper Club for which I paid about $1,000 nearly 25 years ago.
Feb 21, 2003, 8:30 am
#69
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Seattle, WA USA/Punta del Este, UY
Programs: AS 75K, AA EXP, Hilton Gold
Posts: 919
I paid $600 for my lifetime membership on Western and thus far Delta has honored it. And, if I remember correctly, I got 6000 miles too.
Feb 21, 2003, 11:46 am
#70
Join Date: May 2000
Location: kailua, hi
Posts: 42
I'm GM and a lifetime member of CRC. Still using my card that says lifetime on it. Originally I was lifetime with Western and when Delta bought them out I was invited to join Delta's CRC as a new member. I wrote them a letter advising them of my lifetime membership with Western and the reasons why I joined and they eventually extended the same courtesies to me. Pretty content now, except for some of the changes to the Skymiles program.
Feb 21, 2003, 1:05 pm
#71
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Shanwick
Posts: 3,117
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by spazman:
I'm GM and a lifetime member of CRC. Still using my card that says lifetime on it. Originally I was lifetime with Western and when Delta bought them out I was invited to join Delta's CRC as a new member. I wrote them a letter advising them of my lifetime membership with Western and the reasons why I joined and they eventually extended the same courtesies to me. Pretty content now, except for some of the changes to the Skymiles program.</font>
I'm GM and a lifetime member of CRC. Still using my card that says lifetime on it. Originally I was lifetime with Western and when Delta bought them out I was invited to join Delta's CRC as a new member. I wrote them a letter advising them of my lifetime membership with Western and the reasons why I joined and they eventually extended the same courtesies to me. Pretty content now, except for some of the changes to the Skymiles program.</font>
Feb 21, 2003, 4:37 pm
#72
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: New York, NY
Posts: 252
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CelticFlyer:
Out of curiousity..... when you have "lifetime" CRC status as above does that status get indicated on your b/c when you checkin or are you depending on the membership card ? Just wondering whether lifetime CRC members are flagged as such in Delta's SM data.</font>
Out of curiousity..... when you have "lifetime" CRC status as above does that status get indicated on your b/c when you checkin or are you depending on the membership card ? Just wondering whether lifetime CRC members are flagged as such in Delta's SM data.</font>
Feb 21, 2003, 11:34 pm
#73
Join Date: May 2000
Location: kailua, hi
Posts: 42
CelticFlyer,
The "Lifetime" designation only appears on the card. On the boarding pass it shows medallion level and CRC membership.
The "Lifetime" designation only appears on the card. On the boarding pass it shows medallion level and CRC membership.
Feb 22, 2003, 6:59 am
#74
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2000
Posts: 15,345
I had lifetime Clipper Club with Pan Am and had assumed that it went away like the rest of the airline. Between 1992 and 1995 I barely flew DL at all and was suitably pleased that at least my miles had survived.
A couple years ago after reading on FT that DL had honored lifetime CRC, I contacted Dl and was basically told "tough luck" as the records no longer existed.
A couple years ago after reading on FT that DL had honored lifetime CRC, I contacted Dl and was basically told "tough luck" as the records no longer existed.
Jan 12, 2004, 6:37 am
#75
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: AUS
Programs: DL Flying Colonel
Posts: 4,023
Flying Colonel on Boarding Pass
Am flying DL today and printed on my boarding pass is "FLYING COLONEL". I asked the gate agent about it and said they have added it back. Only benefit he knew of was that I could preboard with PM/GM/FOs. Maybe this is good news and DL is back to thinking how to provide Quality?