<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by beaubo:
If an airline wants to change a program for the BETTER late in the year, AFTER they have committed to program changes (good or bad!) for the following year, obviously no one is going to mind.</font>
The only concern I would have with this is who defines what is "better". While I really like the theory of pre-defining benefits and rules a year in advance, but allowing "beneficial" changes during the year, I wonder from a practical perspective how this would work. The airline could easily claim that, for example, tighter restrictions on upgrades makes the program better for the most premium members (even if it essentially screws the rest of the people). That would be better for some, lousy for others.
I don't know... it seems like there ought to be some way, but from a practical perspective it seems like it'd be a nightmare. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just trust the airlines to do the right thing in the first place? Okay, okay, stop laughing. I said, stop laughing!
