I'm Zach Phoning and today on miles away we're talking about our favorite airlines.

I'm J.T. I'm talking to American Airlines where I love the partners, both be able to earn

elite status and really maximize elite status.

I'm Benet Wilson. I'm TPG's credit cards editor and I fly south. my I'm the host of miles away and editor at large at TPG and I value United Airlines because I really enjoy flexibility in the same day change policy.

And I'm Scott Mayerwitz executive editorial director at TPG.

I am loyal to Delta because they get me

where I want to be on time and that helps me stay close to my family.

Typically a miles away we focus on a destination but today we are going to chat about a very different or specific aspect of the travel experience and that is flying.

So getting to your destination and if you're based in the US you have a few key players to get you from A to B

You've got American delta and United but today we're also going to add Southwest

Which is definitely a mainstay within the US. A smaller international network, but very popular here in the United States.

I've got three TPG colleagues joining me today, representing American Airlines or an American Airlines

frequent flyer we've got J.T. Ghenter. Welcome to Miles away J.T.

This is agh. I will be chatting about United Airlines and then we have Scott

Merowitz who will be here talking about Delta.

Hello, thanks for having me.

And then Benet Wilson with Southwest.

Defend to the end.

So I want to go one by one.

Just very quickly, if you wouldn't mind stating your name

your title and you know why you've chosen your airline and why you're defending

American for example J.T. Great yeah so I'm J.T. I'm a senior points of miles rider here at TPG.

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