Originally Posted by Points Surfer

I did the letter thing too and discovered the Delta CRM & Loyalty Marketing Manager monitors these threads so comments like this do fall on the right ear's on Flyertalk....whether is has any weight or not its all free marketing intelligence if they wish to consider it....after all most frequent travellers by the time they get to Flyertalk have considerable wealth of experiences and can be valuable resources.

I just started to look at Rocket Miles for grabbing Aeroplan miles.....do you know if stays count 100% for status building/points etc ?

That's become my new project as well.....a travel plan liberated from declining "incentive" programs. I know I settle into travel routine's but everytime the Hotel programs degrades it forces me to look around...you'd think the Hotel's would realize change often costs them existing customers.