FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - loyalty vs status (a tangent from FA UG thread)
Old Apr 14, 2002 | 3:32 pm
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opencdnskies
 
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by After Burner:
Originally posted by opencdnskies:
Crossreferencing that number with the number of segments and fares and yield would be a trivial computing problem.
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Trivial? You're wrong. That would be a mammoth undertaking.
I beg to differ.

Crossreferencing the ticket number to the fare to the saved AP number is easy. The data is all there and I know from personal experience (used to work for Canadian) the data is saved.

Load it into a relational database engine (take your pick) with appropriate referential integrity and the job is done.

With one click of a mouse button against my AP number, AC could tell how many segments I took using what fares and what my average yield was.

But then we're back to the discussion of what exactly AP is.... a loyalty program or a shopper's (read Zellers points) program...
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