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THE Lowly Peon

Premier Club BS 
08 December 2009, 4:07am

I'm in the Mumbai airport right now, killing the several hours before my 1:50am departure. I'm flying Jet Airways, because there are no other airlines that can take me direct to Hong Kong and to Vadodara.

I went to the Star Alliance Premier club, as I am a premier member of Star Alliance. But they wouldn't let me in because I'm flying Jet Airways, despite my special membership card and my 500k+ miles with Star Alliance.

So I went to the Jet Airways club to try it out. But I used my Visa card to buy the ticket, not MasterCard, so they rejected me as well.

So now I'm sitting on the floor with a raspberry Snapple, charging my iPhone for the long flight ahead of me.

(and you won't see this until tomorrow because the wifi requires a Star Alliance provided password.)

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Kate

[10 December 2009]

This is so lame. I can't believe the Star Alliance wouldn't let a member with over half a million miles into their club. I don't care about "policy" — they really can't bend the rules to keep an obviously valuable customer happy?

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