Originally Posted by
84fiero
I'm not sure who all you had in mind, but I felt that the InsideFlyer post this morning was overly positive about it.
http://insideflyer.boardingarea.com/...miles-revenue/
It almost felt like a DL press release in spots like this:
Not sure that respect for members and Delta belong in the same sentence.
On the one hand, this is exactly how hotel programs work. And I have said for years that if I ran an airline frequency program it would be dollar based, not distance based. Because the distance based model only made sense in a regulated environment where price and distance were directly correlated by regulation/law. But it hasn't been that way for 30-some years now.
OTOH, it seems to me that to some extent Randy and other EM&PR providers built their empires on the backs of mileage runners, so gloating about and/or celebrating this move is a bit crass.