Originally Posted by
bocastephen
I really don’t know what’s going on with these people, a lot of their decisions are just plain odd. An overpriced First Class product that no one buys, 500,000 AS points needed for a r/r US/Asia, this massive devaluation in the first program year for their own program, and my personal insult:, while they handed out free product evaluation tickets to bloggers, when I asked for a ticket to evaluate the product after I had already kicked off negotiations to establish a contract agreement with our agency and exposing them to hundreds of corporate agents nationwide, they told me “no”…. and appear to have fubar’d the contract negotiations.
Frankly they are dead to me as a product until there is more clarity on what they are doing.
They believe having the bloggers and youtubers review will give them sales, but it's really not the case consider how pricey they are.
I don't think they intend to sell those seats by charging NT 400,000 for the sub-par First Class cabin to North America. A transfer via Tokyo on JAL or ANA nets a better product and lower price (albeit a transfer is needed, but it's US 4-5000 less for a round trip).
The separate check in at LAX is not necessary and the complimentary ride probably only cost NT 2,000 (and there are limits to where you can book before you incur a charge!)
I am not sure why they need to issue that ill-mannered notice and they revert it to 3/1. Maybe they will limit the number of tickets that will be released per flight? Most people (if not stupid), will aim to get that ticket used before 3/1 and say goodbye to this program.