Yet to be announced Exec Club changes: your fears, conjecture and general grousing
Sep 1, 2011, 6:17 pm
#76
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Let's not get over excited at this stage. Yes, as always, the devil is in the detail but give Nicci an opportunity to respond to the requests for clarity.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:21 pm
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Well, come November when all is said and done, my guess is that there will be more negative changes than positive changes, at least with respect to the awards that I would typically use. My biggest complaint has been the excessive fuel surcharges and fees. If they're not going to address that issue, even if the miles required are slightly reduced, I'll continue to fly and collect miles elsewhere.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:27 pm
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As ever the BA "teaser" is London-centric and carries scant to zero information about how this impacts folks on the ragged end of the network (BA doesn't even fly into my local airport), so all they've done so far is unsettle a bunch of people by telling us "change is coming" without offering any meaningful details. That in a nutshell is why people fear the news they don't want to detail will prove to be bad news.
Frankly I have to wonder why do they do this time after time? Do they seriously only have any interest in passengers who live in London? Are they stuck in an era where Maggie Thatcher draped her hankie over a tail fin and the Union Jack magically re-appeared? Is it truly a worldwide business?
Sep 1, 2011, 6:33 pm
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. Quite how the miles will become worthless for everyone I don't know, I've not noticed how this news will affect BA flights from the US except to those destinations that have slightly increased mileage requirements.
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:36 pm
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As far as I can tell there has been no announcement on the levels required for the partner award chart. All the new award chart shows is redemption levels ex-LHR.
I have my doubts the changes will be as positive as they are being spun, but I also doubt the sky is falling quite so much as people are posting on here.
The existing BA chart, as pointed out, assumes you always pass through LHR so I doubt for example SFO-HKG (about 7k miles) will go to the same level that they currently require for SFO-LHR-HKG (about 11.3k miles). But I doubt it will be at the ultra cheap 50k/100k/150k with unlimited stopovers rate it is today either
Sep 1, 2011, 6:36 pm
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As ever the BA "teaser" is London-centric and carries scant to zero information about how this impacts folks on the ragged end of the network (BA doesn't even fly into my local airport), so all they've done so far is unsettle a bunch of people by telling us "change is coming" without offering any meaningful details. That in a nutshell is why people fear the news they don't want to detail will prove to be bad news.
Frankly I have to wonder why do they do this time after time? Do they seriously only have any interest in passengers who live in London? Are they stuck in an era where Maggie Thatcher draped her hankie over a tail fin and the Union Jack magically re-appeared? Is it truly a worldwide business?
cs
Sep 1, 2011, 6:42 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:43 pm
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Mr points refund
I got no issues with a company changing their rules. But don't offer 50% transfer and make people transfer their MR Points and than 2 months later make the points worthless for People on the West Coast.. This is not a funny matter.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:45 pm
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:46 pm
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Yes please - go for it!!! I am surprised it took this many posts before some clown picked up the class action suit line. Please take this up and come back here and post to all of us how immensely successful you will be so we can all have a good laugh
As far as I can tell there has been no announcement on the levels required for the partner award chart. All the new award chart shows is redemption levels ex-LHR.
I have my doubts the changes will be as positive as they are being spun, but I also doubt the sky is falling quite so much as people are posting on here.
The existing BA chart, as pointed out, assumes you always pass through LHR so I doubt for example SFO-HKG (about 7k miles) will go to the same level that they currently require for SFO-LHR-HKG (about 11.3k miles). But I doubt it will be at the ultra cheap 50k/100k/150k with unlimited stopovers rate it is today either
As far as I can tell there has been no announcement on the levels required for the partner award chart. All the new award chart shows is redemption levels ex-LHR.
I have my doubts the changes will be as positive as they are being spun, but I also doubt the sky is falling quite so much as people are posting on here.
The existing BA chart, as pointed out, assumes you always pass through LHR so I doubt for example SFO-HKG (about 7k miles) will go to the same level that they currently require for SFO-LHR-HKG (about 11.3k miles). But I doubt it will be at the ultra cheap 50k/100k/150k with unlimited stopovers rate it is today either
People transferring MR points because of the 50% peromotion did so based on the old charts. Compared to the Verizon 83k AA miles case where many bloggers were even calmoring for AA to honor the mistake. People have MUCH MORE OF A CASE HERE if they were entrapped by a promotion and 2 months later , the points were made useless for a major segment of people. West Coast US is not Alabama,
Sep 1, 2011, 6:46 pm
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Just out of curiosity, who forced you to transfer your Mileage Reward points, and what did they use to do it?
Sep 1, 2011, 6:50 pm
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Yes please - go for it!!! I am surprised it took this many posts before some clown picked up the class action suit line. Please take this up and come back here and post to all of us how immensely successful you will be so we can all have a good laugh
As far as I can tell there has been no announcement on the levels required for the partner award chart. All the new award chart shows is redemption levels ex-LHR.
I have my doubts the changes will be as positive as they are being spun, but I also doubt the sky is falling quite so much as people are posting on here.
The existing BA chart, as pointed out, assumes you always pass through LHR so I doubt for example SFO-HKG (about 7k miles) will go to the same level that they currently require for SFO-LHR-HKG (about 11.3k miles). But I doubt it will be at the ultra cheap 50k/100k/150k with unlimited stopovers rate it is today either
As far as I can tell there has been no announcement on the levels required for the partner award chart. All the new award chart shows is redemption levels ex-LHR.
I have my doubts the changes will be as positive as they are being spun, but I also doubt the sky is falling quite so much as people are posting on here.
The existing BA chart, as pointed out, assumes you always pass through LHR so I doubt for example SFO-HKG (about 7k miles) will go to the same level that they currently require for SFO-LHR-HKG (about 11.3k miles). But I doubt it will be at the ultra cheap 50k/100k/150k with unlimited stopovers rate it is today either
People transferring MR points because of the 50% peromotion did so based on the old charts. Compared to the Verizon 83k AA miles case where many bloggers were even calmoring for AA to honor the mistake. People have MUCH MORE OF A CASE HERE if they were entrapped by a promotion and 2 months later , the points were made useless for a major segment of people. West Coast US is not Alabama,
Please be a little bit more chilled out and wait for nicci to wake up and answer the questions
Take a deep breath, big gulp of bud light and chill out
cs
Sep 1, 2011, 6:52 pm
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