Continental Airlines is introducing a million miler program. Lifetime status is one of those wonderful holy grails of loyalty programs, continue to strive to give loyalty to a single company over several years and be rewarded with a wonderful (to mix metaphors) brass ring at the other side of the rainbow. American offers lifetime Gold at 1,000,000 miles and lifetime Platinum at 2,000,000 miles. The kicker here – and why American has the most generous million miler program – is that all miles earned in an account count towards this status, not just flown miles. United offers lifetime Premier Executive (mid-tier) at 1,000,000 flown miles. Delta offers lifetime Silver at 1,000,000, lifetime Gold at 2,000,000, and lifetime Platinum at 4,000,000. These are all airline miles, not any source miles a la American. Continental’s new offering…
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Monthly Archives for June 2008.
USAirways’ Pilots Union Goes Federal On Its Own Members
Most folks’ mental model of unions is that they are representing the interests of ‘the workers’ against ‘management’. That’s frequently not the case, at least as unions age, they often represent the entrenched union leadership over the interests of the workers, if even such a thing as a common interest across employees is a coherent concept (and this phenomenon isn’t uncommon with corporate management, either, just replace ’employees’ with ‘shareholders’). Over at USAirways we’re seeing the unfolding of one of the most interesting and vivid (from the outside, I feel bad for the players) illustration of how employee interests aren’t a unified whole — and we’re watching some of its most malicious consequences, first hand. PlaneBuzz reports on the lawsuit which the new union representing pilots at USAirways has filed against some of its own…
Europe This Summer in Business Class for Less Than $1900
There’s a current thread on Flyertalk about several US cities (so far noting Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, but no doubt others) having August fares across Europe — Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, and More — for less than $1900. The fare is nonrefundable and bookable on Expedia and also shows up on Orbitz, though there are reports of pricing difficulties on Orbitz. It seems to be the key that the overwater segments either be on Lufthansa or a Lufthansa-coded United flight. This is an outstanding fare for peak summer season, and especially from the US West Coast. Plenty of coach itineraries will be approaching this price…
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