It may not be open to view, but that doesn't mean that we don't know what it is. Target-marketing is supposed to reward you for doing something that you don't normally do, and not something the company thinks you're going to do anyway without any sort of promotion. That's why infrequent flyers get the double-mile promotions and the platinums don't.

So even if the airline were to say that this offer is only available to flyers who flew less than 2000 miles last year, it wouldn't make anyone feel better. It would just be specifically quantifying what we already know. All the platinums would still be calling in demanding that they should be treated no worse than the infrequent flyers.

BearX220, at first I thought you meant the end of sneakiness for us. After I read it again, I see you mean the end of sneakiness by the companies. I'm Ok with that now.