Originally Posted by
fassy
Yeah, good news for SK*Elites. All of the other *A airlines do the same - only free ASR for their own elites.
Bad news for all non-SK*Elites.
Bad news for all *Gs whose travel patterns include flying lots of * partner airlines’ flights in economy class too. The reduction of elite benefits in practice — even soft and inconsistently provided ones — for alliance partner elites continues to erode the incentive for such customers to choose carriers by global alliance affiliation; rather it is an incentive to become more of a free agent and to confirm or render the global alliance relationship as less and less relevant.