Originally Posted by Adam Smith

As airlines treat points more like a currency with ever-escalating dynamic pricing, as opposed to giving away empty seats to frequent flyers, it becomes more and more logical to award status credit for reward bookings. DL awards MQD on redemption tickets, although I'm not aware of any others. This is actually something I've been wondering whether we might see from these changes.



For PoT, OMAAT, VFTW, etc, this is their livelihood. They need access to airline execs to continue to get special/early info that lets them produce the content that earns then a living, give them comped flights or status or whatever, advertise their co-branded CCs, etc.