Lucky notes an interesting rule change over at Air Canada for elite status qualification: at least 10,000 miles or 5 segments have to be flown on Air Canada in order to be eligible to earn status in the program. Flying 35,000 miles earns mid-tier status and Star Alliance Gold. So for, say, a US Airways passenger who hits just 35,000 miles in a year and flies routes and times where as a Silver they’re unlikely to be upgraded often, they may be better off crediting their miles to Aeroplan. They’re a mid-tier elite, instead of a bottom-tier elite, and they receive free lounge access even for their domestic flying in the US (access to US Airways lounges, as a partner Star Alliance Gold). Not to mention access to partner lounges (like the Lufthansa lounge at…
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A Passenger’s Right to Recline Their Seat in Coach?
Picking up the meme from Road Warriorette and additional comments by Lucky I’ve given some thought to whether reclining your seat (in coach) is a right or a privilege? In other words, is it something you’re entitled to do independent of the wishes of the passenger behind you, or something you do only to the extent it doesn’t inconvenience them? What if you want to sleep and they want to eat or work on their laptop? Lucky says it’s his right but he doesn’t exercise it in coach on day flights, but does in first class, and that the problem is worse in first due to greater recline and only marginal better pitch (distance between seats, or technically from seat back to seat back). I understand where he’s coming from, I’m especially frustrated being scrunched…
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