Originally Posted by
conklaven
You are simply wrong... someone in the premium cabin would currently get more multipliers.
Not sure why you are defending this so much. It is clearly bad in everyway. And to add salt to the wound they are making it cost more for award tickets. So not only does it take longer to get miles now its harder to redeem them
If someone flies 5,400 miles each way r/t LHR-LAX and holds platinum or executive platinum status
In economy class : earning would be 5400+5400 * 21,600
In business class : earning would be 5400+5400+1350 *2 = 24,300
Comparing , say, LHR-LAX r/t fares, in november, lowest economy is showing as $704 ( base $478 ) with business being approx 5.5 times higher at $4033 ($3704 base )
For a fare that that is 5.5 times that of economy fare, the earning is only 12.5% more. Hardly seems a fair rebate for such a hgh extra spend
In new scheme earning will be directly tied to dollar spend where for a platinum member , in economy will earn a total of 3,346 whilst business will earn 25,928
The tying to dollar spend seems much fairer to me; that the actual earnings for an economy passenger will be lower is not good for building up miles - that the higher spend earns more seems a lot fairer
It is not bad for those buying premium tickets, which would seem to be a nice target customer group to be attempting to give incentive to fly on what is a mediocre airline - in this LHR-LAX example , the business class passenger is slighty better off than before; being better for some , does not make it worse in every way
For an EP member in business class, the earning would be 40,744 - seems a lot better earning for that passenger