When I first arrived at FT about two years ago this forum and all the airline forums were filled with bonus offers of all kinds. Now it seems like a genuine, open enrollment, bonus miles/points offer is a dinosaur. I realize that there are many "targeted" offers (left handed, elite FF's, from Dubuque) but even those are the exception rather than the rule.

Is this another symptom of the decline of affinity programs? What do FTers think is behind the dissappearance of the bonus? Are airlines and others taking their members for granted?