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Old Oct 23, 2012 | 8:58 am
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Originally Posted by jochen_vdk
We should not forget that most of the members do simply not have enough miles to buy a C award. BILD is not writing this article for FT members, but for the millions of M&M members that have 10-50000 miles on their account, getting their miles together in a very long and tiring process of flying intra-european Y.

You cannot really call these people stupid. They are flying LH, getting miles for that and they are expecting to be able to use their miles in a reasonable way. BILD is explaining that there is no reasonable way to do this, so the mileage programmes of LH and AB are useless(*).

(*) expect for these few hundreds of FT members that fly enough to buy C/F awards or get Companion awards
Why do you think BILD is recommending to have a look at BA?

Passengers need even less miles and pay less compared to LH.

People are not stupid using Y awards but LH is forcing them into sub-optimal solutions. Selling 99 EUR tickets and overcharging on award tickets is very representative of Lufthansa's evergreen strategy: we set the rules and we don't care.
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