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GS on United isn't 100K miles or 100 segments - that's the 1K status level, equivalent to AA Exec Platinum. GS is based on revenue numbers - fly a lot of full fare tickets as a 1K and you stand a chance of making the cut-off for GS. UA also selects, as you noted, "players" - people who influence and generate a lot of travel revenue for them both directly and indirectly by sending their employees out and about, and for the very big players, offers them the opportunity to nominate a few key employees for GS. The company I fly for has all o fthe above.

Fly safe.

- Kilo

12-07-2009 @ 3:37PM

Klondike said...

Thought GS would really be customer service. Falls short. Way short. Plane had to change a pump. Captain says mechanic will let him know whats wrong, then says it will be at least an hour to change, plus time to test it. 40 minutes have gone by already, I'm going to miss my connection. So I get off the plane and fly an entirely different airline. NOBODY approached me on the United flight. You get a nice greeting, thats about it with GS. Emirates is the best with Limo service! Wow!

12-07-2009 @ 3:32PM

Karen said...

I worked for the airlines. Let's talk about these upgrades, favors, etc.

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