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Old Dec 3, 2011, 5:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Crazyhotelguy
Hopefully we will know what 2012 's program is around October.

Anything prior is speculative.
How true.

In Janaury 2009 I remember them making changes to the elite program. One was to eliminate free award changes for PM's. Then they eventually went to 2 free changes, then back to unlimited.

So even if they announce the 2012 program soon, it is totally subject to change at any time throughout the year.

ETA: I have to chuckle how the elimination of free award changes for PM's back in January 2009 was because PM's weren't showing up for flights. Then most recently the "no refund of miles if a no show" and the 72-hour rule implementation were because everyone (just not elites) were making too many changes. Easy to blame your customers for stuff like that (when no other airline in the industry has the same apparent problem that DL has in this regard).
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