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Join Date: May 1998
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The challenge WN faces is that to bring in international partners they really need to change the earning model from free tickets to some type of stored credit system. Having to use two awards for an ATA ticket to Hawaii and now two Standard Awards for a Freedom Award worked okay before, but only because there were only a couple of options.
Honestly, I think they're doing they're homework on other options, but in the end the program will not be so radically changed, the points will be similar to what we see now (though I would expect greater usage of quarter points potentially), but we'll be able to bank them for different awards instead of accumulating awards automatically as happens now.