Originally Posted by
LTN Phobia
Most schemes would have some kind of availability issues, although QFFF gets around this problem with "any seat award" where you can redeem for any seat on QF but it can be for a horrendously (and I really mean it - I have seen something akin to 1,000,000 points for an F seat SYD-SIN or something similar) high number of points. Perhaps BA could introduce something similar for those who have a large number of miles but cannot find availability.
They do sort of have such a thing. The double points reward for golds and the Joker for GGL. They are of course limited to higher status members (I so hate the term elites with all its DYKWIA resonances) but I can see why BA did that. Besides, by the time you are likely to have enough miles to consider utilising (say) double points there is a pretty good chance you would be gold, unless you picked up your miles with Chase.
A separate thought. It is now perfectly possible to pick up eye watering lay generous amounts of miles akin to Chase wilt Lloyds, if you can get Lloyds trained chimps to tell Avios to give you the miles. I wonder if we will see a new wave of disgruntled credit card holders coming here to moan about YQs, hijacking threads left, right and centre and generally being obnoxious? And if not, why not? Those were rhetorical questions BTW
