Originally Posted by
canadiancow
I agree with you.
However, I think the problem is that most people do not earn miles from flying.
I really think there need to be two types of miles. One lets you redeem for a large group of flights, the other lets you redeem for a subset of those flights.
Like how SEs can book into R or I, but anyone else can just do I. But instead of SEs, anyone using "AQM" can book into a better class.
And because AQM come around from actual revenue to the airlines, there's an incentive for this. The 3cpm miles let you book more than the 1cpm miles.
So you're saying AP should rebrand "market price reward flights" as "status reward flights"? I'd be okay with that, honestly. Just price the second type the same (ish) as the current fixed rewards and not as outrageous as market price. Would certainly be an interesting and unique concept to reward ACTUAL flyers with "guaranteed" seats.