Originally Posted by
aCavalierInCoach
In my view, it's a four part devaluation of miles that has become particularly acute over the last year or so.
1.) Remove historical practice of swinging the doors open on saver availability very close in / day of
2.) Remove capacity far out
3.) Reduce saver award availability generally
4.) Increase time required to locate awards, thereby increasing search costs and decreasing efforts to redeem
I can agree with this - we are not frequent travelers and have saved up miles for years to take a trip to Europe in summer 2016. It was very, very frustrating to try to find an itinerary, and probably took 6+ hours of searching.