Very interesting diamond club news !!! (MFUs, Family membership, iGUVs) : discussion
Nov 17, 2009, 3:25 pm
#154
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London. Edinburgh, Cornwall
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I also agree with your observations about the potential restrictions imposed by the new eGUV system. Great idea, but not without its drawbacks.
Nov 17, 2009, 3:29 pm
#155
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: GLA
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Presuming there isn't some kind of capacity control system, to keep at least a seat or two free for late sales. Because, of course, bmi yield management is second to none...
Nov 17, 2009, 3:31 pm
#156
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
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Giving us the same choice BA offers would strike me as fair: either the pooling benefits of a household account or the ability to redeem for anyone. Of course, giving us both options would represent a fairly major plus point for BD!
Nov 17, 2009, 3:33 pm
#157
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
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I am surprised that nobody has mentioned that, given they can e-ticket a reservation almost immediately, why have we still got these antiquated time limts on doing bookings.
Nov 17, 2009, 3:36 pm
#158
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: BHD/DUB
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Nov 17, 2009, 3:44 pm
#159
Join Date: May 2006
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Nov 17, 2009, 4:17 pm
#160
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold (and other non-status plastic)
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With the benefit of a long day in the office and a whole load of new FAQs materialising on the website (e.g. about paper GUVs being valid for another month and eGUVs not rolling over), I still don't see how this will be in any way an enhancement for me (unless I procure a wife, children, nannies and security - errr, which planet do they think most of us live on?). Action Man puts it nicely:
Oh, and another thing - will we be able to eGUV our travelling companions (which is a published benefit of paper GUVs... not that I'll ever upgrade 3 of my friends between EDI and LHR again if I can't rollover these new eGUVs!)?
Ahem, I think you'll find "eGUV" (TM) was first mentioned in Post #17 - do I get a prize?!
IMO the new upgrades are also NOT an improvement for people like me who usually fly BMI:
- They require you to pay additional taxes and fees to use them
- They require you to ring ICC to use them
- You cannot use them on a standby basis/at the airport on day of departure (presumably)
- You cannot give them to your colleagues if they are also Gold
- They expire.
Since on many routes business is almost never full anyway I personally don't see how this is an enhanced benefit.
- They require you to pay additional taxes and fees to use them
- They require you to ring ICC to use them
- You cannot use them on a standby basis/at the airport on day of departure (presumably)
- You cannot give them to your colleagues if they are also Gold
- They expire.
Since on many routes business is almost never full anyway I personally don't see how this is an enhanced benefit.
Ahem, I think you'll find "eGUV" (TM) was first mentioned in Post #17 - do I get a prize?!
Nov 17, 2009, 4:23 pm
#161
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Berlin
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Nov 17, 2009, 4:30 pm
#162
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: DUB - Ireland
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And ensuring that that credit card from Ghana will actually clear. Legally.
Nov 17, 2009, 4:46 pm
#163
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Nov 17, 2009, 4:51 pm
#164
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: BHD/DUB
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An extra routine and fraud prevention - someone checks that the routing is legal - thanks to all the idiots flouting the SIN loopholes, backtracking excessively, and beating the F-longest-sctor rule to death.
And ensuring that that credit card from Ghana will actually clear. Legally.
And ensuring that that credit card from Ghana will actually clear. Legally.
Nov 18, 2009, 12:16 am
#165
Join Date: Oct 2009
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