elgringito,
ILUVCITIBANK is saying the same thing I am... and so have lots of others:
Originally Posted by ILUVCITIBANK
In my book, the program is and has been for years fundamentally flawed and arguably fraudulent... My real experience w/ Nonepass was poor... veiled capacity control aimed at forcing award travelers to have to burn double miles to get a seat on the plane. Nonepass just took it to the highest level and has been pretty well outed for their policies over the years, THANKS to this group of flyertalk posters, but *NO THANKS* to InsideFlyer for continuing to bestow freddys on a corrupt elite program.
If the airlines *don't want to honor 25K base leveal awards*, they should be professional and have integrity to just nix the award level. Once I saw Continental winning freddys, and knew I myself could not get a base level award seat, after repeated tries, the value of the freddy award took a nosedive in my book.
I have said before that the Freddies are a worthless yardstick of FF program quality because the voters are a self-selected sample. It's not a statistically valid way to conduct a survey. It's more like an election. If Nielsen conducted TV ratings like this, inviting fans of various shows to write in, some teen drivel on the WB would emerge as "more popular" than
60 Minutes.
Having said that, even the CO diehards seem to have caught on lately -- I don't think OnePass won much of anything this year.