Watch it. Randy will suspend you both for a week for providing TOO much useful FF info.

I saw Randy type somewhere only in the past few days (thibk it was on Northwest chat session after Russ Hinkley left) that a US airline earns from their FF only about .8 a mile flown average, but sells points to Hilton, etc for US1.25c a mile, so those deals are more profitable to it than FLYING people who they then need to give awards to, upgrades, and spend HEAPS on admin to look after etc.

Brice is clearly in this field, and his thoughts definitely have some weight.

MY take is that Ansett will match the QF scheme within months. Sad but true in some ways. They are VERY much the junior player here now, their domestic market share has slipped from exact equal to QF to about 20% less, and dropping all the time. And Compass and Virgin have taken a chunk aout of both. They can't afford NOT to move with the big guy.

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~ Glen ~