Friday, March 5, 2010

More Travelers Loyal to Alliances, Not Airlines


Carl Woodin views himself as a US Airways passenger even when he's flying on the planes of US Airways' foreign partners: Air Canada, Lufthansa, All Nippon Airways, Thai or Singapore Air.

Woodin, 47, a multimedia producer from Maple Glen, Pa., hasn't crossed the psychological barrier of calling himself a "Star" passenger, though he prefers the pampering he gets on the foreign members of the Star global airline alliance to what he gets on domestic flights on US Airways, also a Star partner.