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Old Aug 25, 2014 | 8:48 pm
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Originally Posted by ctownflyer
No parroting from me in posts from this morning and afternoon:

http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/50288
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/50351
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Originally Posted by artemis
But they did have a reason: quite a few airlines have developed a bad habit of making big negative changes to their programs with little or no advance warning. The results is what we saw during the last 24 hours: a frequent flyer community that panics at the slightest hint a major devaluation may be coming.

I suspect the rumors of an impending BA devaluation would not have been so widely circulated if not for the airlines' own past actions.
Yeah that's a good point, we've come to expect the worst since we keep getting the shaft.
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