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Old Sep 29, 2006 | 9:30 am
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Anglo Large Clawed Otter
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: A festering pit; a pustule of a fistula set athwart the miasmic swamps of the armpit of the Gulf of Mexico - a Godforsaken wart upon a dark crevasse of the World. (IAH)
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For Top-Tier Flyers (Plats) allow guaranteed redemption of 2 BF Awards at Standard Redemption Rate per calendar year (i.e. Not subject to capacity controls or blackouts. If any BF fare code is available on a given flight, A Plat may redeem for up to two tickets once per year at standard BF redemption rate).

As an incentive to fly past 75K, allow those who do so to redeem a single BF Award seat for 50% off mileage requirement of Standard BF Award for each 50K flown beyond 75K. (e.g. a Plat who flies 125K would be allowed to redeem a BF return to Europe from N. America for 50K, instead of 100K miles). This would be somewhat like an SWU, serving as a benefit to the Plat who stays loyal beyond 75K, and serving as a benefit to CO by getting some miles off the books. Alternatively, for each 50K flown beyond 75K, CO could grant a single waiver of BF Upgrade co-pay fees from U fares or higher (I arbitrarily picked U, as it is a middle-of-the-road Coach fare). I have selected these options in lieu of UA style SWU's, as there appears to be no indication CO would go for such a system. At least, in the two examples provided above, CO would either remove some mileage from the books, or, as in example 2, gain a mid-level coach fare purchase as well as mileage deduction for the upgrade.
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