Originally Posted by
controller1
Your analogy doesn't work for me. If I only have the need or ability to stay one night then why would I pick two nights? The only reason would be if the two-night award was less points and there was no early departure penalty.
In your analogy I might laugh it off but I would not necessarily pick the two-night award. AND I am of right mind.
Fair enough, but with an airline award ticket, you have the option of rebooking your return portion.
So, if there is no incentive to acquire a one-way award ticket vs. the roundtrip, any reasonable consumer will opt for the roundtrip award and retain the value poriton of the return leg.
Then he or she either has the choice to not use the return or to keep rebooking it as long as possible in order to retain its value.
With the one-way award scheme that has zero marginal value and incentive, the company is asking consumers to willingly forego their value up front for no benefit.
Only the dupes would ever select that option.