Originally Posted by sllevin
I suspect the changes are to reduce EasyPass redemption which is why Europe is getting a much bigger increase than Asia. That was NW's reason for the dramatic jumps they made last year.
Steve
Sounds about right.....don't provide any seats at Standard award levels so people will be forced to redeem more miles for SleazyPass awards. Now that people are redeeming at the SleazyPass level, it appears that too many seats are being given away (with the lack of capacity controls on the SleazyPass awards). Ergo, better significantly increase the number of miles needed for a SleazyPass award so people won't be able to redeem for those either. Gotta hand it to CO.....no other program comes anywhere close to them in making it difficult (if not impossible) to redeem awards.