FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - New RA qualifying criteria based on IC Revenue

Jan 21, 2018, 6:19 am

#2323

Flying Lawyer

FlyerTalk Evangelist

Join Date: Sep 2005

Location: Capetown

Programs: Marriott Lifetime Plat, IHG and Hilton Diamond, LH SEN, BA Gold

Posts: 10,167

Quote:

Originally Posted by IAN-UK

I can't see any party disagreeing with the notion - except perhaps IHG, and the hotels

.

The notion of no-longer-frequent travellers with time on their hands selecting off-season rates for weeks away in suites with club lounge and mini-bar as comforts will send shudders through the corporate teams

I think the best lifetime award you could expect might be Spire. Something of marginal utility for guests, and little inconvenience to hotel management. And even then there'd have to something like the Lufthansa caveat restricting the duration of the award by granting it only to those over 60 years of age. Knowing IHG, that would be upped to 75....

why should this send shudders? Off season traveller booking suites and using the facilities a hotel needs to provide anyhow are the guests a hotel is longing for. A suite sold off season with 50'percent discount is better than an empty suite. Starwood and Hilton understood this.

Reply