Swiss P Class down to 100%
 

M&B has published a new earning table on LX for flights after January 1st. The only change I can see is that P is down to 100% from 200%. It should probably be listed as "Business discounted" instead of "Economy discounted".

Ouch, that is sad (but perhaps expected). One of the good ones gone.
Thanks for the heads up.

(It is actually not a business discounted fare, it is a economy upgraded fare).

This is consistent with SWISS's handling of P in their own Miles & More programme - business P earns less (domestic:500 European:750 global:100%) than the higher economy fares (B,Y - domestic 1,000; B, M, Y - European 1,250; B, Y - worldwide 150%)

http://www.miles-and-more.com/online...l=en&cid=18003

I think, the last frequent flyer programm, where SWISS P earns more than 100% is now UA Mileage Plus, where it still earns 150% (I keep my fingers crossed for that ;)).

Oh, of course it is and that is why it was expected. Never the less sad.

Basically, it's a "funny" fare. I flew last summer LX/OS ATH-ORD booked on a Lufthansa ticket as a business discounted fare. It was P on both airlines, and got 200% and 100% respectively.

Well, cross Europe in business at 200% for ≈400€ it was a decent fare. At 100% it is not. Sad, because I started to like Swiss. Looks like SK in "plus" is now what is left for intra europe running. But their service is nowhere near LX.

So Z-fare is still safe for now then. I had feared that would also go down.

True for intra-European flights, but intercontinental P offers are independent of available Economy fares

OK, good point.

Crap! I had planned to book a P fare for January to get me over the Gold threshold. Glad I held off buying the ticket so far..

With the Swiss P fare one could travel roundtrip through Europe for < 500 euro and earn 6K miles. Do we have any alternatives within Europe? The only one I can come up with is SK, but their "business class" is not really comparable with LX..

I thought SK had done away with business class intra-Europe?

They have. However, the SK fares called "PLUS" (which I believe he is referring to) earns 200% - the service is nothing, but sometimes they can be had for good value. Theses are pretty good for racking up points.

Yes, I was talking about their Plus. Which is priced almost the same as Swiss P, unfortunately.

Some more changes that A3 added:

Air Canada: W,S down from 100% to 50%
Brussels airlines: W,S from 750 to 500 miles; Z from 2000 to 1250 miles, M,U from 750 to 1250.

The Air Canada change is due to AC moving more fares from Tango+ to Tango. It'll soon be pretty much impossible to earn 100% to North America for a sensible fare.