Originally Posted by
irishguy28
There comes a time when you have to put your actual flying customers ahead of those who are no longer flying enough (regardless of the reasons why those can no longer fly!)
But it isnt a case of "no longer" its a case of "not currently"
We have *excellent* reason to believe that the vaccines being rolled out already, and that the next 3 shortly to join rollout in Europe specifically to speed up the process - JnJ/Novavax/Sanofi - will all materially protect against covid as a cause of hospitalisation or worse. At the rate vaccines are set to be delivered to Europe, the central expectation should be for Europe to be mostly post-Covid at some point during the Summer. As Europe becomes vaccinated, the vast majority of those "not currently" will become active flyers again.
Encouraging a large amount of your FFP to become free-agents just before that period begins seems incredibly counter-productive.
Frankly, if demand for aviation does not rebound as Europe becomes vaccinated, A3 will have much larger problems than if they extended FFP benefits & requals for people that still arent using them.
Originally Posted by
irishguy28
And A3 needs its customers, so it's counterproductive (at least in the immediate term) to once more "encourage" a further period of non-engagement with the airline.
I would agree if you expect that Covid situation will be relatively permanent and make demand for aviation be under 50% of pre-covid levels into 2022 and further. If lots of your customers want to travel once theyve had a vaccine, or their work wants them to travel once theyve had a vaccine, that you lost their loyalty because your arbitrary 6mth status push only went to May21 and travel became massively more feasible in June21... the calculus is different.