{"id":5371,"date":"2013-10-09T15:52:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:16:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:16:32","slug":"one-thing-hope-american-change-us-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/2013\/10\/09\/one-thing-hope-american-change-us-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"One thing I hope American Does Not Change About US Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today MJ, Marshall Jackson on Travel, wrote “Three Things I Hope US Airways Doesn’t Change About American<\/a>.” I love MJs take on US Air 99.9% of the and I don’t disagree with this latest post either.<\/p>\n

His post inspired me to write this post, which I’m sure will be very controversial (I love a good controversy.) So, you ask, what is it that I hope American doesn’t change? I hope they don’t get rid of the “Buy Up” program.<\/p>\n

The Buy Up program allows you to pay for status. If you’re short of making a level, you can buy up to that level. It’s not cheap…it would cost you $4,000 to buy Chairman status outright (vs. 100,000 miles flown or 120 segments.) But, for those people who fly, say, 90,000 miles and have spent $25,000 in the process of doing so, it’s a huge benefit to be alb to buy up for $400 (the cost of 10,000 miles).<\/p>\n

I suspect a lot of people will say I’m crazy, what a terrible idea, it devalues the program, blah blah…. But I’m a huge fan of this program and I really hope they don’t get rid of it. If they did for some reason, it would be a really hard for me to decide if I’d stay with “The New American” or move to another program (most likely Delta so I could take advantage of the Starwood cross over program.)<\/p>\n

So, what camp do you fall in? And are there other things you hope don’t change?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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