Here’s an oddity for you: the mere fact that a politician is not flying in a private jet to the United Nation’s Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, is actually a news story.

But perhaps U.S. Sen. John Kerry wants everyone to know he’s flying commercial in the wake of the UK Telegraph story that details how 140 private jets and 1,200 gas-guzzling limos have arrived for the conference (said a Denmark limousine company manager: “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfill the demand. We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”)

So the question remains: which commercial carrier will Kerry fly? SAS, Lufthansa, United? And, more to the point – will this help him reach “elite status” in his miles program before the end of the year?