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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 7:59 pm
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Originally Posted by bawr
I would be interested in such a survey too. On airlines like LH and BA, which charge exorbitant fees for award tickets, economy class awards are essentially worthless. On such airlines, only premium cabin award availability matters.
+1.

I know this thread has gone dormant a bit, but I'd love to see some international long-haul premium cabin comparisons.

I also question a lot of those IdeaWorks numbers. Read the methodology in their paper - it's pretty vague. For example, on Southwest I'm wondering if they ran queries and marked a "Yes" every time they saw "Freedom Award". Even though I like Rapid Rewards for what it is (a simple domestic U.S. award program), I don't buy a 99+% hit rate on Standard Awards - what we really care about - for any sizable number of random citypairs for this summer.
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