Especially as existing programs continue their devaluation toward an asymptote of zero value...
It's like I've been recently posting in the Southwest forum: A program can become the best simply by standing in place while all the other programs race to the bottom.
At some point in the devaluation process even FT'ers will lose interest in the programs and start to focus on the value of the product itself. We aren't there yet, but IMHO that's where we're going.
Question: if Southwest (which started the low cost airline business) JetBlue, and others can have their own forum, why not Spirit, Ryan, EasyJet...?
There has been no reasonable answer to this question, rather than "I hate them, or their Flyer Programs suck". Has anyone looked at the Delta Skymiles forum lately?
Putting these airlines in the "budget forum" does not make sense, being that they are airlines, rather than cheap travel advice & concepts!!!
There has been long debate about Spirit since at least 2006 and who knows how long for Ryan? You know the industry is moving in this direction, as it goes past Southwest towards Spirit/Ryan way of operations.