InsideFlyer Research - Please Answer!
Dec 28, 2006 | 1:23 am
#121
Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: HY
Programs: AA-EXP (3.3MM), AAirpass, SQ-PPS Solitaire, DL-PM (.777MM), SPG-Plat, HH-D
Posts: 2,307
InsideFlyer magazine is going to publish an article on elite programs in our next issue and we would like your answers to the following four questions. You can either answer here, or email [email protected]. Thank you!
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member?
3 (AA/DL/NW)
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? (Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, Upgrades)
Bonus points and Lounge access, thats it.
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
Yes, LT Plat AA
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member?
3 (AA/DL/NW)
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? (Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, Upgrades)
Bonus points and Lounge access, thats it.
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
Yes, LT Plat AA
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)
Dec 28, 2006 | 6:25 am
#122
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Saint Petersburg, Fl
Programs: DL Gold, WN A-List, HH Diamond, MR Plat, Avis 1st
Posts: 319
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member? ONE (Delta)
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? Double miles
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? No
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? Haven't asked (But was offered by the airline and accepted by me many years ago)
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? Double miles
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? No
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? Haven't asked (But was offered by the airline and accepted by me many years ago)
Dec 28, 2006 | 10:16 pm
#123
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: EWR
Programs: CO OP Serf
Posts: 370
1. Just one.
2. Upgrades. Despite its reputation for being awful for upgrades, CO has almost always come through with me on that. I do fly mostly Tues/Weds, but still. The mileage bonus is the second most important bennie.
3. No
4. Haven't tried.
2. Upgrades. Despite its reputation for being awful for upgrades, CO has almost always come through with me on that. I do fly mostly Tues/Weds, but still. The mileage bonus is the second most important bennie.
3. No
4. Haven't tried.
Dec 28, 2006 | 10:28 pm
#124
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Colorado
Programs: UA & IHG Plat, SWAlist, Frontier 100k, Marriott Titan, IHG-Hilton-Hyatt-Wynd Gold, Nat EE, Hertz PC
Posts: 447
>1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an >elite-level member?
2
>2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program?
>(Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, >Upgrades)
Preferential seating, Early Boarding, Miles Bonuses
>3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
No
>4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite >status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)[/QUOTE]
Yes
2
>2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program?
>(Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, >Upgrades)
Preferential seating, Early Boarding, Miles Bonuses
>3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
No
>4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite >status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)[/QUOTE]
Yes
Dec 31, 2006 | 9:39 am
#126
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Vienna AUSTRIA
Posts: 549
InsideFlyer magazine is going to publish an article on elite programs in our next issue and we would like your answers to the following four questions. You can either answer here, or email [email protected]. Thank you!
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member?
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? (Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, Upgrades)
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member?
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? (Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, Upgrades)
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)
1,Elite bonus miles. 2. Lounge access. 3. Priority check in and pre-boarding
NO
Yes LH-senator to DL-Gold
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Jan 2, 2007 | 2:12 am
#133
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: CH-3823 Wengen Switzerland
Programs: miles&more, MileagePlus
Posts: 27,043
1. now only miles&more (LX, LH, OS, LOT) - formerly also Flying Dutchman (KLM) and Mileage Plus (UA)
2. as a SEN (miles&more) the partner awards that cost only 150% of the miles (2nd: fast check-in at 1st class counter, even when flying eco)
3. YES, LH SEN (qualification criteria are: must be over 60, must have been unniterrupted SEN for 10 years and still be SEN when applying, must have over 1 Mio lifetime flight-mileage credits, must apply - not granted automatically )
4. YES, Mileage Plus (UA): I was 1K with them, but gave up using them when they cancelled flying from ZRH (to IAD); when they resumed ZRH-IAD 3 years later I asked and got 1K again.
2. as a SEN (miles&more) the partner awards that cost only 150% of the miles (2nd: fast check-in at 1st class counter, even when flying eco)
3. YES, LH SEN (qualification criteria are: must be over 60, must have been unniterrupted SEN for 10 years and still be SEN when applying, must have over 1 Mio lifetime flight-mileage credits, must apply - not granted automatically )
4. YES, Mileage Plus (UA): I was 1K with them, but gave up using them when they cancelled flying from ZRH (to IAD); when they resumed ZRH-IAD 3 years later I asked and got 1K again.
Jan 3, 2007 | 4:07 pm
#134
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: New York City
Programs: AA Platunum
Posts: 498
1. In how many frequent flyer programs (not hotel programs) are you an elite-level member?
2. What one benefit do you appreciate the most in your elite program? (Early boarding, Lounge access, Elite flight bonuses, Exclusive awards, Upgrades)
3. Have you achieved life-time elite status in any program? (Yes, No)
4. Have you successfully asked a frequent flyer program to match your elite status in another program? (Yes, No, Haven't tried)
2. It's a whole package, though priority seating and upgrades are most important.
3. No
4. Never tried.