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American Airlines - US Air Merger??
JetBlue credited my credit card $214.00 today for the storm cancelled trip.
Thanks "JB"!
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Thanks "JB"!
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Nope. Just saw both CEOs on TV. The new company will be part of one world. Great for me even if I have not flown US Air in years. I am exec plat on AA and between this merger and LAN aquiring TAM my one world choices have gone up.
The only negative so far as since AA ditched JFK to SDQ flights my first class upgrades tend to happen at the last minute rather than days before. Once I even had to fly coach. . . . .the horror!!!!
They all go through cycles of good and bad service. Jet Blue was great at first. I flew them all the time. I had two free round trips saved up. One day I wanted to use one. . . viola. . .gone. I call em. They say they expired. I said you guys advertise that miles don't expire. She said we used to say that, now we don't.
Started paying more to fly AA and get in at godly hours instead of 3:30 am. I have not flown jet blue since. I have not lost a single mile on AA in 10 years or more. I used about 200k plus miles last year and still have 400k miles. We are at midway point in fab and I have 22k miles for 2013. Since I fly to texas, chile and colombia this month I will have 50k miles by end of feb.
Smart move for Jet Blue to lose me as customer. . . . .
I do hope that all stays the same with the miles program. I have over 80 thousand miles. I too received a email saying all is "well" but I will believe it when and if they honor my miles later this year. Maybe I should go ahead and book now....
Yeah it gets old. Better than turning left is getting seats that recline all the way flat on long trips. I get 8 system wide upgrades for exec platinum but get 4 more for doing over 125k points and had one left over from last year. DFW to SCL in coach when you are my size is a pain in the ass.
I don't care about food, drinks, pampering etc etc etc. I want leg room and getting off the plane first doesn't suck. I flew in last night and was the first to hit tourist card counter and first through immigration. My bags took a while but I would rather wait there than on immigration or tourist card lines.
I also dig double miles. Any time I need a break I use miles for a few nights at Alisei in las terenas, or when we go on longer trips to jamaica or Tobago etc. . .
Talks of service cuts and higher fees because of the merger
Whatever happens, the path won't be smooth.
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/business/airline-consolidation-may-be-costly-to-travelers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130215&_r=0
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Whatever happens, the path won't be smooth.
[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/business/airline-consolidation-may-be-costly-to-travelers.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130215&_r=0
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According to the news, this merger has been approved and will be going through in about a month.
Supposedly, someone like me with AA frequent flier miles will be able to use them to fly US Air. I hope they keep their PHL-SDQ direct flight!!
Supposedly, someone like me with AA frequent flier miles will be able to use them to fly US Air. I hope they keep their PHL-SDQ direct flight!!
It passed the next to the last hurdle today, so now almost a slam dunk, but the 2 airlines had to agree to sell some major, hard to get slots mainly at Reagan and LGA and a few other choice hubs. Give and take. Eric Holder held his ground, like him or loathe him. He knew without those mandates, they would gouge consumers, that's just business. Whatever, both will make major $$ from selling the slots. Short term gain, but no long-term gouging......for a while, until the loopholes not published get pushed through from lobbyists.
They'll have a lot of leverage.
It's disconcerting too that the employee's will again get the short end of the stick, and the execs walk
away with great stock options and a nice big bonus to wrap up their short tenure at the helm.
What an accumulated 1.6 million miles means to AAdvantage members after the merger, I have no idea.
They'll have a lot of leverage.
It's disconcerting too that the employee's will again get the short end of the stick, and the execs walk
away with great stock options and a nice big bonus to wrap up their short tenure at the helm.
What an accumulated 1.6 million miles means to AAdvantage members after the merger, I have no idea.
They've been repainting the US Airways planes here in Miami International's hangers all summer/fall long....
If it goes anything like the recent Continental-United merger you won't notice a thing. It was a long slow process. Like mentioned above, they paint the planes, several months later the two frequent flyer programs combine as one, if you have a credit card linked to one of the airlines they will give you a new one. It was a long, but smooth process.
You can keep track of the changes in the link I provided above.
If you currently have reservations with A/A or USAir they will be honored. Also your miles plan will also be honored. This mergerhas been in the works for quite a while and the FTC finally gave it's approval. It will still be hard to beat Jet Blue service into the DR.
LTSteve
LTSteve