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Old Jan 9, 2009 | 4:14 am
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Richelieu
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Originally Posted by alanw
- No more F awards unless you're elite
- F awards skyrocketing in price (the example I saw was 400,000 miles for CDG-PEK return)
Which confirms what have already been posted here and totally not denied by AF at the last meeting. I find it rather odd that they're interested in reducing the outstanding number of miles for accountancy reason, and yet make it very unappealing to use miles for first class. It would be 3 times the price in miles of a J ticket, and they'd lose much more if people used to spend miles to fly in p started to fly three times in J...

Unless they want to really improve their onboard product in the same vein of the improvements made to the ground service at CDG, which could certainly be a good thing, but it would really need to be exceptionnal to justify this price. And probably not the best year to pull it off...
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