<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Threy:
It was already confirmed, that the awards will be priced differently from country to country, beside that all the discrimination will stop at least from the standpoint of actual flown miles.But it would be possible to give certain countries more of a status bonus or even more offers.
As posted before, from a german standpoint, you cannot blame KLM at all, we were given generous special offers all over the last two years....
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If I were in charge I would do it the following way:
Take my AMS-CDG weekend trip example from above.
Dutch (Europe 1) member:
10.000 points needed for round trip now
2x.000 miles needed for award later
apply conversion rate of 1:2.x or better and communicate accordingly
German (Europe 2) member:
9.000 points needed for round trip now
20.000 miles needed for award later
apply conversion rate of 1:2.22 or better and communicate..
I therefore believe that the conversion is indeed dependent on the planned award levels. I think they will hurt a few members anyway who were able to take advantage of the old point system. Will be hard for KLM to make them stay in any case. But if they devalue your points so that you can't afford the same awards any more, that will cause a catastrophy IMO.