Originally Posted by flysurfer
..Not too bad for many, though nothing will change for me, personally..
No ambitions to become HON-lite anymore
?
Lets count the weeks until SENs can no longer bring companions into the
lounge. I guess that 'upgrade' is due August or next New Year's present.
Mayrhuber's Yakuza sure is working on the issue. Now that they learnt that
you can berieve customers from two sides - applying fraudulent taxes and
well chosen crippling of the program.
..Oh, and the one-way award "discount" of 25% is really an additional fee of 50%.
But that's typical LH marketing speech...
Unlike QF where one-way awards only cost half miles of return. Of course only
after QF doubled the required miles for an award.
Originally Posted by andre1970
..Also, the HON Circle "enhancement" (anyone in this forum predicted that the HON Circle were soon to be enhanced?) gives us a measure of the number of UA-flyer HONs. Too big..
Indeed and they solved the issue with the well tested Mayrhuber algorithm:
make the tiers hard to reach rather than to expand the lounges.
Despite owning LH shares, I really hope that this ongoing inconsistency and
fiddling with the program rules does fire back at the current management.
They adopted the operational principles of politicians. That one always gets
away with not keeping promises or commitments.
But it's not happening easily. Of course they loose the US HONs but they did
not want them in the first place. Only if pax abandon the sinking M&L
they might feel it somewhat - LH just has no need to run a
Mileage Plus 
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