Originally Posted by
tcuhrc
The scale at which points earning is being cut is unmatched across any of the programs you mention (and over a much shorter period of time too). My opinion is mostly that the changes are more bad business sense, rather than they don't work for me - of course they don't, but I have no need to be loyal to Air Canada to begin with, and I clearly know that makes me a dispensable customer; I accept that. Along those lines, you mention that passive CC spend is highly profitable, and yet AC is disincentivizing it somewhat compared to before.
The problem is not the trend at which FFPs are moving and I don't see anyone disputing that here. The problem is that what AC is doing doesn't make a lot of sense or at least seems poorly thought out, and that's being very generous.
I'm not sure how to quantify the scale of points earning being cut between AC and the other airlines.
"The problem is that what [airline] is doing doesn't make a lot of sense or at least seems poorly thought out" came up over and over again in the DL threads last year and the BA threads this year, almost word for word, over and over again. I agree with you, but that conundrum, too, is nothing new.