The Madness of Airline Élite Status
I liked the article. This madness is real.I used to fly 110 times/year for work, internationally. I had gold status with several airlines at once. I did this for about 8 years (although the last two years I went down to about 80 flights/year).I live in SF and, of course, I have to fly United if I don't want to make one connection every time I fly somewhere in the US. And I am a Premier 1k member.I can confirm that the perks are almost useless; that this absurd race loses any meaning when everybody else is racing with you.
How can Premier 1k be good, if I'm not among the top 1% (the only case in which automatic upgrades and such would actually be useful)?All in all, I hate United. And I'm not the only one [0].By the way, why does Google NOT provide this link when I search for "Untied"? [1][0]: http://www.untied.com/main.shtml[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=untied&oq=untied&aqs=chrome....