Originally Posted by
kitbag1984
There are small differences but why not merge the schemes. It's never a good idea to confuse your customers. Remember flyertalkers are hardly the majority of flyers.
Because it would severly limit their future options, to do things with the Avios brand. Turn it into a nectar style mass market scheme, etc.
Keep in mind you can book other airlines flights with Avios.com, i.e. Monarch etc, all online. Not great value, but you can do it.
And Eurostar, etc.
Originally Posted by
Raffles
The biggest issue I have, oddly, is that the avios.com scheme is called Avios.
I think I said that here on FT on day 1 of the annoucement, certainly many of us were saying it in the first few days. Why not call it Avios UK direct or something like that.
Especially since it has a website, avios.com, which does not immediatly suggest it is something for the UK only. Hence many people thinking it is for everyone using Avios, e.g. Iberia Plus members etc.
It would be easier if they kept it as Air Miles with avios as the currency, it would at least then be clear what we were referring to!
But as we know, that would have meant continuing to licence the Air Miles brand, which they did not own.
I'm not going to rehash the old threads here, we've all said before how we think it is badly explained.
Ideally Avios.com would be a site explaining the avios currency. And 'Avios direct UK' would have it's own site.