Why did they have such rules? Sent from my iPhone
> On Jun 22, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Corporate rules required that we fly business class on any travel over 8 > hours total air time. That meant that any time I left the USA I was flying > business class. I could also control who I booked on, so since most of my > travel was to Asia and the Middle East I stuck with Northwest and KLM - KLM > was a mandatory for security reasons, we couldn’t use any other carriers to > the Middle East with the exception of El Al, who, of course, had a limited > number of destinations in that part of the world. > > Since NWA and KLM code shared and were partners, I was able to corral my > miles into one big honking account. This was also back in the day where NWA > issued a 20,000 mile voucher for every 20k you earned, good for one domestic > airfare in the US. You could “stack” them to use for upgrades and > international travel as well. Because they could be endorsed over, there was > a very brisk secondary market for them, too. > > I think I sold six or eight of them in a lump to a ticket broker the year we > built our house in Port Washingon, WI for something like $5,000. They were > good for two first class trips to Europe at that amount, I believe. > > I made Platinum every year I flew, and back then getting first class upgrades > was pretty easy and automatic for Platinum members. I don’t think I flew > coach for 6-7 years straight. My international travel kept me in first class > on all my domestic flights, which really made it nice. > > 747s were configured differently for different carriers. NWA and KLM had > business class on the upper deck and first class in the nose. That was nice, > as it kept all the riff-raff from wandering through the cabin and having to > have the flight attendants shoo them out. > > Dan who doesn’t care to travel at all now…. > > > >> On Jun 22, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I paid for those upgrades many times. It was interesting, when the small >> company I worked for opened an office near London some travel agent, I think >> an Indian guy the company owner knew, gave us 5 BA gold cards in exchange >> for booking flights through him. I snagged one and that got me biz class >> one way, then I had to fly coach coming back which was ugly. >> >> When I went to Lotus we could fly biz class internationally, so in _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
