New Elite Airpoints Dollars upgrade rates
Dec 12, 2019, 3:16 pm
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Jun 2010
Programs: Air New Zealand
Posts: 41
New Elite Airpoints Dollars upgrade rates
Posted without comment...
https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/elit...-upgrade-chart
Let the discussions begin....
https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/elit...-upgrade-chart
Let the discussions begin....
Dec 12, 2019, 4:24 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2008
Location: MSP
Programs: DL Plat, NZ Elite, QF Plat
Posts: 1,776
Basically:
Better rates between East Coast Australia/Pacific Islands and NZ for both PE and BP upgrades; slightly better PE-BP upgrade rate between AKL and HNL/PER/DPS/PPT
Worse rates everywhere else
Increases are much bigger than decreases
Better rates between East Coast Australia/Pacific Islands and NZ for both PE and BP upgrades; slightly better PE-BP upgrade rate between AKL and HNL/PER/DPS/PPT
Worse rates everywhere else
Increases are much bigger than decreases
Last edited by NZ_Flyer; Dec 12, 2019 at 4:48 pm
Dec 12, 2019, 4:43 pm
#6
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney, Australia
Programs: NZ*G ELT, VA-G
Posts: 3,601
NZ's long haul Premium Economy fares rivals many of the competitors' Business fares and now they are asking their most loyal customers to pay more for upgrading to one of the most uncompetitive Business hard products in the world at a time they are facing unprecedented competition on long haul routes. They could have at least waited until they introduce the new Business seats.
Dec 12, 2019, 5:17 pm
#7
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Programs: NZ Elite; QF Platinum; CZ Gold; MU Platinum; Marriott Titanium; Accor Platinum
Posts: 1,467
Am I reading this right.... A 45 % increase on USA upgrades to business?
That's painful. In my case I fly mostly to Asia where there is much more competition (and unsurprisingly the increase is less on these routes) but where NZ has a stranglehold which is USA they are really hitting their elites hard
That's painful. In my case I fly mostly to Asia where there is much more competition (and unsurprisingly the increase is less on these routes) but where NZ has a stranglehold which is USA they are really hitting their elites hard
Dec 12, 2019, 5:17 pm
#8
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: SEA
Programs: NZ Elite (*G)
Posts: 657
That seriously hurts those of us based in the USA. Not only do we not have access to Airpoint Dollars via credit card spend, the Elite upgrade rates to NZ just jumped almost 50%. Lowering rates to Australia brings most of us no benefit at all.
Last edited by SeaProf; Dec 12, 2019 at 5:29 pm
Dec 12, 2019, 5:24 pm
#9
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: San Francisco, CA
Programs: NZ *E
Posts: 346
NZ's long haul Premium Economy fares rivals many of the competitors' Business fares and now they are asking their most loyal customers to pay more for upgrading to one of the most uncompetitive Business hard products in the world at a time they are facing unprecedented competition on long haul routes. They could have at least waited until they introduce the new Business seats.
Dec 12, 2019, 10:20 pm
#10
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: AKL, YUL
Programs: NZ*GE, UA*G
Posts: 323
Yep. This is real bad — the main reason I keep NZ*E status these days is for these low-cost APD upgrades. Will need to do some arithmetic to figure out whether I should switch to Qantas from here on out...... sigh.
Dec 12, 2019, 10:29 pm
#11
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: bne
Programs: Velocity Gold, AIRNZ Elite, Qantas Silver ,Hilton Diamond
Posts: 1,320
Upgrade cost
Am I reading this right.... A 45 % increase on USA upgrades to business?
That's painful. In my case I fly mostly to Asia where there is much more competition (and unsurprisingly the increase is less on these routes) but where NZ has a stranglehold which is USA they are really hitting their elites hard
That's painful. In my case I fly mostly to Asia where there is much more competition (and unsurprisingly the increase is less on these routes) but where NZ has a stranglehold which is USA they are really hitting their elites hard
Auckland to Chicago PE to BP was 480 ap now 890ap
85% increase