"Reef Fish" wrote:
>
>nobody wrote:
>> Eastern Airlines was bought by Pan Am. Pan Am was bought by TWA. TWA was
>> absorbed by a giant black hole and has not been since since. They're all
>> gone now, sucked into vaccum, with all their assets transformed into
>> energy and beamed to a distant galaxy in a different dimension.
>
>With one exception.
>
>The name of the Frequent Flyer Program used by Eastern, OnePass,
>survived the Black Hole and had been adopted by CO.
The name of the original Eastern program, started in 1981, was simply
Frequent Traveler Bonus Program. One Pass came later. I still have
the FTBP coupon booklet from when I joined in 1981. Back then you had
to tear off one coupon for each flight and fill in your flight
information and turn it in when you checked in for your flight, as
there was no web booking or online check-in back then. :)
You could use your miles for awards on Eastern, Hertz, General,
Marriott, British Caledonian, SAS, and TWA. Many people blew their
miles on TWA's flight from New York to Bombay with stops in Paris and
Cairo. Having had friends who did it and reported on the miserable
conditions of the passenger cabin, especially the toilets, by the time
they got to Cairo, I decided to blow my miles on several trips to
London on British Caledonian instead. Much nicer, cleaner planes.
And the Caledonian girls were much more pleasant than TWA's surly
matrons. |
