Originally Posted by
rangerss75
There's a 200% earn rate at the moment, attractive for someone (like me) who flies Z Class a lot on LH group flights. But this rate is being reduced soon for Miles and More members. My past experience is that these changes soon get passed on to other *Alliance programmes, to stop, in this case, a Miles and More member earning more by crediting his LH group flight to another FF programme. So, expect the earn-rate on LH group Z flights to come down very soon in Miles and Bonus as well.
Many economy fares on LH earns more with other Star programs than with M&M as many airlines that give Elite bonus on their own metal also gives them on LH's metal. Even in Business, an M&M elite would get 225% when flying C, D and J. He'd be better off crediting to Dividend Miles. He'd be Chairman's Preferred and get 250% on LH C.
Of course you could be right, if LH becomes more stingy it could be replicated by other programs, but each program's balance is slightly different.