Heya Paul, thanks for joining us. It's always great to see airline staff participating here.

To be honest, I find it difficult to understand why AirNZ chose Flash as the main platform for their airpoints site. Other frequent flyer programmes manages to develop high quality frequent flyer sites on standard-based HTML/CSS platform -- which can be accessed by virtually any internet-connected devices.

Qantas' FF site remains an excellent example of 'how to do it'. And they did it all using standard-based HTML/CSS which means mobile devices (Android, iPhone, et al) can use it. The only flash they have is for marketing material -- which I don't miss when I have Flash disabled.

I know there's not much that can be done now that there has been a lot of investment into the current myairnz site, but I hope that the next major refresh of the site will see a return to a standard-based platform.

And just for the record, I appreciate that there is a standard-based fall back option. However it is pretty much an ugly second-tier citizen to the flash site. AirNZ could just have developed a single standard-based site which would be accessible just by virtue of being standard-based.

That's my 5cents anyway.

- James