Originally Posted by
TheKipper
I'm CEO of bmi. I have lots of freeloaders, non-bmi flyers and shed loads of BD Golds who are not frequent flyers of my airlines.
Errr, I *was* a frequent flyer of bmi. But then the current and previous CEOs in their wisdom decided to cut flights and frequencies to DUB, LBA, GLA, JER, AMS, BRU, CDG, MAD, all of which I travel to on a reasonably regular basis, predominantly on business and by air (and, indeed, by bmi) out of preference. Tblisi, Freetown, Tehran, Baku and Khartoum, funnily enough, not on that list - who would have thunk it?
Therefore I now have no choice but maintain my BD*G through predominantly flying other *A airlines, which is out of company policy, and therefore 90% out of my own pocket (and we are talking long haul paid business class here, not cheapie economy tickets to the US, thanks very much)
Originally Posted by
NickB
Make *A G status substantially more difficult and I'll just cut *A from my flying. If I have to choose between *A and OW, as a London-based flyer, there is absolutely zero contest: OW it'll be.
To be frank, from a business perspective, I would have thought that BD's first priority would be to get more people to fly BD at a reasonable yield: that is BD's real problem, not its FF programme.
I couldn't have put it better myself ^
Let's be frank here. If we are forced to migrate to M&M on significantly inferior terms, then ALL of my *A spending will be migrated to a combination of OW (since I live in London, and BA is corporate preferred anyway) and one of the Big 3 Gulf carriers for my East-West paid business class travel
And I can't be the only soon-to-be-ex bmi loyalist in this boat
