Comments on: so depressed https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900 2002-2015 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Sean Daly https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9456 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:38:31 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9456 I happened to be seated next to an extreme frequent-flyer the other day on a United flight. According to him, a million actual flight miles doesn’t give you 1K status for life or any other perks with one exception. If you earn 1K status after you reach a million actual miles, you are given priority (seating, upgrades, standby) over other 1K members. Shocking to think how little loyalty means these days. But I don’t like to pick on United. I wouldn’t fly any other airline. Being on-time is my priority since I travel every week for business and in my personal experience, United gets me there either on-time or early with few exceptions. I tried American for a couple months when United lost my luggage and my loyalty (temporarily). American was late every single time without exception.

]]> By: Ben https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9455 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:54:21 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9455 Well, MileagePlus should notice, even if the FAs on your flight don’t. You should get Premier Executive for life (yours or United’s, whichever is shorter), with all its usual benefits – Econ+ seating, 100% bonus on flight miles, yada yada yada. I think that if you’re a 1K member, it also entitiles you to a couple extra system-wide upgrades per year as well.

This assumes it’s 1,000,000 actual miles (the “Lifetime United Flight Miles” item if you check your mileage at united.com). They don’t count miles earned by credit card purchases, etc. (American Airlines does) – United’s is if your butt is in the seat for 1MM miles.

]]> By: Andrew Northern https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9454 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:26:53 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9454 I drove around 2,500 miles from February 14-22. I know many professional drives cover much more in similar time spans, but that was my vactation, so I know how you feel with huge amounts of driving.

]]> By: Ron Green https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9453 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:57:46 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9453 I just asked my dad who was in the airline industry. He said about the only thing United does is give you priority seating.

]]> By: Motts McGregor https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9452 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:30:31 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9452 Check out a little book called “Up In The Air” by Walter Kirn.

-Motts

]]> By: Anonymous Coward https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9451 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:11:56 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9451 Maybe they’re waiting for your 1048576-th mile?

]]> By: Justin Blanton https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2900#comment-9450 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:45:32 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2005/02/so_depressed.html#comment-9450 When I first read this, I laughed, but after thinking about it, it is kind of sad(?) that there’s no recognition whatsoever for such a thing.

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