Earn elite status on US Airways for 7,500 miles

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9-21-2009 @ 1:32PM

Jamie said...

MalayCobra is right; elite status is becoming pretty widespread as a benefit.

With any airline, even my own beloved Continental, elite-level flyers don't stay with an airline because they're *told* that they're special. They stay because they are *treated* like they're special, and if that erodes through saturation, those passengers will look elsewhere.

That's why you see Delta making a new fourth level called Diamond, and lavishing special perks on the people who reach it.

Ironically, U.S. Airways already has a four-tiered system. But it's also the most fee-hungry and cut-focused of the airlines, so being elite in their program is basically just a fee waiver that brings a passenger back to parity with what was standard service two years ago.

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