? So...? What's the frequent flyer relevance?


It's the one class up privileges that loyalty cards tout, taking one away will obviously cause annoyance. In all my years of being Gold/silver on *A and OW , I've never had FFP lounge privileges entirely withdrawn at hub.

Most reasonable seasoned travelers know that EK is not a best in class premier airline outside F any more. I'm not saying their business model is not successful, quite the contrary, when they seem to target people who will pay J/F prices but seem to value the car service... ... I may not get it but EK does, there are loads of them, judging from threads here, even in F!


But why ppl continue to fly EK and complain so much when it's apparent with humungous empirical evidence that FFs simply don't figure in EKs ( very succesful) game plan, is beyond me.