RichardMEL
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Which brings the next question.. What would make you spend more to reach for P1 status?
Status runs for the point of a shiny card aside...
As I posted last week the benefits should be tangible like confirmed upgrades (X/year or X/SC level achieved) like UA/AA SWU's or the GGL options, ability to give WP status to anyone, not just a "partner", and so on.
The current offerings are mostly not flight related (epiqure, golf club etc) and intangible (the "extra event offers" stuff).
Now, I get it most that attain P1 aren't paying the bills and are on (lots) of business travel, so they probably wouldn't care, but on the other hand, things like confirmed upgrades could really be attractive if say you want to take the partner/family on that much needed holiday?
I mean free confirmed international upgrades (including F obviously)
As it stands, the tangible flight benefits are reasonable in respect of the 7 day international upgrade window, the access to pre-assign exits and other premium seats (ironically the other day all I *could* assign was 1A )
I do find some agents are better than others to be flexible with things like flyahead and finding seats.. some not so much.
It's certainly not a program to spend a lot of $$$ to attain IMHO. It's nice but it's certainly not the be all and end all. They could make it much better. GGL seems to be the best that I have seen.. and holding BA up as an example to follow seems really weird somehow!