Originally Posted by tricopulos
BSL: partners leaving the program: air exel, avianca, sam.
New partners joining: twin jet, airlinair, air calin, japan airlines, air india, indian airlines, bangkok airways, taag, middle east, airlinair, taag (hope all names are correct)
Avianca and Sam have already left Globalpass back in January and therefore de facto stopped to be FD partners. As far as Air Exel is concerned, haven't they stopped flying?
The new partners are in fact F+ partners, so nothing new really. Just the consequences of the merger.
CoS bonus: yes, this is exactly what I feared.
Looks to me like the new programme is basically the F+ programme with the KL partners added and presumably a few additional perks for F+ members who do more than 70K a year.
If, as I fear, upgrades from any fare are also going, then the FD programme will have no attractive feature. As KL is not in itself an especially attractive airline, it looks to me like KL will be dying of a slow death over the next few years.
If only they understood at AF that KL cannot be AF and the NL are NOT France... F+ might work for AF but it is unlikely to work for KL.