Originally Posted by
beaubo
What do you consider to be a 'reasonable' amount of advance notice for a FFP to announce changes to its program and allow for a transition to such changes.
In the last couple of months, we have seen SQ abruptly terminate its relationship for transferring points to SPG, and as noted below, LH was equally as arbitrary in restricting BD Cash/Miles award access to LH F product.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=847190
While I agree that changes without notice are sometimes bad, most FFPs rules do allow changes at any time without notice.
As for the BD cash+miles loss of ability to redeem on LH F, there is still the option of regular LH F award and I wouldn't be so quick to blame LH on the say-so of a few call centre agents. Airlines don't restrict award availability based on how many miles it costs to redeem from a partner FFP. The most plausible explanation (to me) is that like UA with it's filtering of *A awards, BD has realised it is paying considerable sums to LH on this type of redemptions.