<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Point_Chaser:
Why is it though that most of these reductions are valid only on the carriers' own FF programmes?!
Several other *A FF programmes do not reduce for these booking classes...</font>
It may just be that the others need time to catch up. Or it may be that outside of FT, people who do most of their flying on one airline and accrue the miles to another airline's FF program are rare even that the airlines don't want to add any more complexity to their rules.