Originally Posted by
lost_in_translation
The only logical conclusion I can reach is QR don't care if QRPC survives, they have to be aware that these changes are going to lead to an exodus from QRPC. Just in the CDG lounge about to credit my first QR flights to BAEC (4 x cash F sectors - BA are presumably going to charge QR a fortune for me to crediting to BAEC).
Charged by an airline owned in large parts by you know who. Besides, QR must have some stockpile from all the BA flights I was dumb enough to credit to QRPC until May.
But I truly don't understand why QR would just drop QRPC. Having pax credit to your own program must be by far the cheapest method. All they need to offer in return are some award capacities on flights that would be partially empty anyway, basically transporting them at marginal cost. The fact that it is now cheaper to get partner awards just baffles me. But I don't want to give them any ideas about bringing that in line.