Yet to be announced Exec Club changes: your fears, conjecture and general grousing
Sep 1, 2011, 4:33 pm
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BA eliminating free stopovers like AA did when introducing "flex awards" wouldn't surprise me. [AA allows free stopovers at the North American gateway on long-haul international trips at least but eliminated most of the stopover choices that it previously used to allow.] So that would leave something like "free" stopovers at LHR and/or MAD/BCN.
Sep 1, 2011, 4:39 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 4:41 pm
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The zonal model will still exist so you will not be penalised for a multi segment reward within a single zone. However jumping between the east and west coasts will be more expensive than it currently is. Without the full matrix it is difficult to quantify the exact differences.
Sep 1, 2011, 5:40 pm
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Any academics looking at the general differences in British and American mindsets ought to study this thread in quite some detail.
Makes me shudder at the thought of being a regular on the AA boards, if this lot are a representative sample. How quick to assume the worst and make negative judgements on things they know nothing about!
Makes me shudder at the thought of being a regular on the AA boards, if this lot are a representative sample. How quick to assume the worst and make negative judgements on things they know nothing about!
Sep 1, 2011, 5:50 pm
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Any academics looking at the general differences in British and American mindsets ought to study this thread in quite some detail.
Makes me shudder at the thought of being a regular on the AA boards, if this lot are a representative sample. How quick to assume the worst and make negative judgements on things they know nothing about!
Makes me shudder at the thought of being a regular on the AA boards, if this lot are a representative sample. How quick to assume the worst and make negative judgements on things they know nothing about!
3% of the routes going up does not jive with partner awards being changed to distance based awards. While there have been a few who don't recognize that the distance probably won't be calculated via LHR, it still doesn't mean 3% is true.
Sep 1, 2011, 5:56 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:00 pm
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And Yanks accuse the British of being cynical... 
For the first time in ages BA have made an announcement that, on balance, is pretty good news and I cannot believe the amount of whinging on this thread.
Airmiles collectors I think have a genuine gripe. Everyone else - take the rough with the smooth. I for one think it's a good announcement and deals with an awful lot of the inequalities and oddities in the program as it is now in a fair way. I'll wait and see what the next couple of months bring, but so far I'm fairly pleased with what I see.
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For the first time in ages BA have made an announcement that, on balance, is pretty good news and I cannot believe the amount of whinging on this thread.
Airmiles collectors I think have a genuine gripe. Everyone else - take the rough with the smooth. I for one think it's a good announcement and deals with an awful lot of the inequalities and oddities in the program as it is now in a fair way. I'll wait and see what the next couple of months bring, but so far I'm fairly pleased with what I see.
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:02 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:06 pm
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I do believe Prospero is correct, that although the intent is to make partner awards "the same" as BA awards, that means similar miles for similar routings.
BA awards NA-Asia assume transiting through LHR. So while I'm pretty sure it will go up, not as much as the current BA chart implies.
BA awards NA-Asia assume transiting through LHR. So while I'm pretty sure it will go up, not as much as the current BA chart implies.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:08 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:11 pm
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That's based on my assumptions which could be anything from 0-100% correct 
A big issue that BA have is flooding the marketing with BA miles via Chase for people who don't pay YQ with any American airline. At the end of the day they don't hide from the fact they charge YQ on awards but you then have a lot of new members only prepared to consider partner awards. It's just unfortunate that those awards look like they could potentially change the most.
So far the changes look more favorable to UK/EU members and why shouldn't they be. It's a British airline and I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a sign up bonus of 100,000 miles with a credit card in the UK.
A big issue that BA have is flooding the marketing with BA miles via Chase for people who don't pay YQ with any American airline. At the end of the day they don't hide from the fact they charge YQ on awards but you then have a lot of new members only prepared to consider partner awards. It's just unfortunate that those awards look like they could potentially change the most.
So far the changes look more favorable to UK/EU members and why shouldn't they be. It's a British airline and I couldn't tell you the last time I saw a sign up bonus of 100,000 miles with a credit card in the UK.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:16 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:16 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:17 pm
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So I'm correct in reading that BA will not post the new reward chart until the effective date in November, giving no one any ability to plan or change plans until it's too late (aside from the sample of certain new routes in the announcement)? I think that's very poor on BA's part. Usually airlines provide the pending new chart at least a few months out, and that's with only minor tweaks (as UA did this year).