I may be one of the few that has actually had access to the site so I will give you a brief review. You can acquire a new pin # by inputting your old LP number and your birthday. Unfortunately both the Frequent Flyer number and new pin number are clearly visable in the URL that opens the next page of the site. This is a serious security flaw! I can still see this URL in my past visited sites so I would not access this account from any public computer. Lets hope this is something they are working on. With all the time they had to prepare you would think such an obvious problem would have been resolved.

On the plus side it was possible to view all your past activity, including hotel, car rental and flights. The transfer points option was not working and I was not able to see which programs could be transferred too or from. I checked every link and could find no information about mileage requirements for awards. This was most important to me and I could not locate the information anywhere.

Some new program details were available. In the news section two airlines will be joining the program: Spirit and I believe Icaro of Ecuador are joining but not presently members. Alaska airlines was not mentioned as a member or joining in the future! The site does mention that Spirit will participate in a way as to allow some sort of premium award, and hinted at this requiring more points, however this was not clear. In the rules section it was noted that many discount fares will now only permit 50% of the mileage.

Overall I was deeply disappointed with the product and can only hope what I saw was the Beta site and not the finished product. Thirty minuets after viewing the new Global Pass site it crashed and only the opening page is now visable.


[This message has been edited by cy-gone (edited 01-01-2003).]