Why Chasing Airline Loyalty Status Is a Mistake for Most Founders

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]But absent like the super-duper high-end status, especially if you live in a place like New York or LA or SF, your status doesn't actually really get you anything. So, for the vast majority of our clients, even if they come in loyal, I I generally try to steer them to do what I think is more rational, which is like just pick the best deal on business class for where you're going and don't like pay more and take worse times so that like maybe in an irregular situation you get slightly faster service or like but if you're flying business class anyways, you get into the lounge like so yeah, overall like that's another huge mistake that people make.

[00:00:32]It all comes back to that same core mistake, which is like not valuing your time effectively.