Originally Posted by
GUWonder
My thinking is that Radisson was in a cost-cutting mode to pretty itself up for a sale and didn’t find its affiliated bank card business something that helped for that purpose; and so it was already winding down the “costly” card business even before Choice came in making an acquisition offer for Radisson’s board to consider.
Is there evidence that the card business was costly to Radisson? Most travel companies seem to make a ton of money (rev and profit) off their affiliate card programs. And with 2nd award night free benefit killed years ago, I don’t know why the card would have been unprofitable for Radisson. Seems like a lot of people here are sitting on a big pile of points from the card for an unspecified future stay. Certainly that was true for me.