Originally Posted by
ozzie
- Ability move to an earlier flight during the day without penalty for elites. There's many a time I could have used this benefit.
Aah, you can do this already with a K class or higher fare ... Got to remember that whatever benefits are offered they need to first and foremost enhance the profitability of the airline. To introduce a policy like this would remove incentives for the airlines most profitable group of customers for buying higher fares.
Originally Posted by
harryhv
Along with Air France, QF has just about the worst program in the world. \
Big call, and IMHO simply not true. I could fill a page with reasons why not but some of the immediate things that come to mind are:
- status and points earning on every available commercial fare. One could fly a return between Asia and Australia every fortnight on SQ's (inflated, ie more expensive than QF) "sale" fares in Y and get no points and no recognition. On QF one would get to platinum and have enough points for a round the world fare in business class. And you say QF has the worst program in the world!
- 1000 pts minimum earn on domestic flights. Sure the burn rates are high, but for travellers plying the skies between MEL&SYD, they get double points compared to many carriers (ie 1000 pts vs minimum of 500 on many carriers), although admittedly WP's would get 880 anyway.
- Anytime lounge access for platinums (not too many other airlines do this)
Not the best program, but far from being the worst.