Originally Posted by
Golden
LH has introduce a HON level with many additional benefits and travellers seem to have responded very well, so well that the mileage required for next year will be increase to around 350K a year.
You seem to forget that they also pi$$ed off all of their former top tier members who were not elevated to HON - which was probably not such a bright idea, as that group of people is, being larger, probably still responsible for significantly more profit than the HONs are. The point I'm trying to make is don't try to "finance" a newly introduced top tier by taking benefits away from the former top tier (incidentally, LH managed to REALLY screw this up by marketing all of this as "enhancements" to their SENs).
Originally Posted by
Flying Doctor
I think that the biggest problem is the 'Eurogold.' If you live in the US you need 1500 points for a gold card. It should be the same in Europe.
FD
Being a genuine Eurogold (not Eurocheat), I don't really care one way or the other. If BA take this away, I will not have any incentive to give BA any of my longhaul business anymore - fine with me, there are plenty of other airlines out there. But I guess BA kind of thinks along the same lines which is why they maintain Eurogold at the low threshold it's currently at.