livencali

Well for starters, I live in the U.S., a country existing in the "world", which by the way supports "freedom of speech" by way of forums such as Flyer-talk. The rest of your commentary I have no interest in responding to as most of those statistics are obvious to most of us and thus was not used as the "basis" for my opinion.

Also, why do you feel Citi's TY program is "well enough." Well enough is not equal too, or doesn't have the same meaning as "perfect". "Well enough" only needs to have the ability to redeem your points through various redemption mechanisms. So in my opinion is "well enough" for me.

What part about the current TY system is great? This question is "one and the same" with the above.

The 0 hotel partners? Hence my suggestion of a hotel partner which was mentioned in my post. Did you forget that already?

The non-existent domestic airline partners besides Jet Blue? Hence my suggestion of adding American Airlines? I mentioned that already too.

The soon to be devalued airline portal redemption options at 1cpp? Subjective to your opinion and not others. In addition, that will be made up by other means, i.e., bonus categories etc. You seem to portray some sort of understanding of how the "running a business" or "profit and loss" of a business works, but by your own definition of redemptions and values, across most award programs seem to display a "lack thereof".