Originally Posted by
yitianjian
I personally would love a major crackdown - no more flexible bookings, no more booking for others (except via an unchangeable/only with fee change nomination process), and so on.
This reminds me of some of the lounge threads: all sorts of ideas on how to reduce demand that will affect other people but not affect the person posing the idea, such that they get the benefit of the rule change without the downside. I for one would "hate" (I think that's the opposite of love) the changes you suggest. I frequently make last-minute changes to my travel plans, and often book travel for others using my points. Although I'm happy with the "no change fee, no redeposit fee" situation that we seem to be in these days, I was fine with paying a service fee for those services back when they were charged. What would be completely unacceptable to me would be award booking that were "use it or lose it - no changes allowed." Although I use the features I mentioned above, I never do speculative booking or sell/barter awards - my use of the award programs is in full compliance with both the letter and spirit of the program rules. I would not be happy if they instituted rules that substantially (dramatically?) reduced the value of those programs in order to address what others are doing with them.