Hilton HHonors - Airline Award levels to change June 1

It seems that HHONORS will have a new structure for airline rewards starting 6/1. Not only will the point levels get increase, but the options get reduced greatly. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif For example, the Asia/Pacific award will be virtually non-existing. I wonder if anyone can provide some suggestions as to how to beat this new system?

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I searched but could not find mention of this here - apologies if this is a duplicate post.

The Airline awards page on HHonors.com now lists a completely new set of rules and redemption levels for airline awards effective June 1. Now I am fairly sure that this was not there when I looked at airline awards about a month ago.

The new awards levels are approximately 30% higher than before in a quick comparison. Most majors now require 100k for a US domestic roundtrip.

http://www.hilton.com/en/hhonors/rewards/airline.jhtml

You will find the list way down at the bottom under all the rules for the current arrangement.

I am disappointed in this because the airline levels were starting to look good given the upcoming increases to GLON and GLOP awards.

Airline awards have always been a ripoff. With the new hotel awards jumping the cruise values are getting more realistic. Flip side is the cruise lines have dropped their rates.

Whilst the new levels certainly push them in the direction of being a rip off, the old level of 75K HHonors points for a domestic US flight is a 3:1 ration compared to mileage exchange at 5:1 or more.

This was particularly the case given that some Airlines allowed full mileage accrual on these flights so if you had mid-teir status and used a Hilton award for a transcon for your 75K you got a free flight worth around $300 and 10,000 miles in the airline of your choice.

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please see the prior thread, above...thanks RutDog