Yet to be announced Exec Club changes: your fears, conjecture and general grousing
Sep 1, 2011, 6:53 pm
#91
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mostly AUS or rural England
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Sep 1, 2011, 6:57 pm
#92
Join Date: Jan 2000
Programs: Latinpass Million Miler. BA Gold.
Posts: 3,544
It offers a connection through DFW though, doesn't it? I flew that earlier this year.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:58 pm
#93
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mostly AUS or rural England
Programs: BAEC redundant Bronze, AAdvantage Lifetime PLT, CO, WN, B6
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And I don't doubt you have just as many issues with pricing, travel agent tickets and MFU's as I do. As I implied, it's not "British Airways", it's "London Airways" - everything they do starts and ends at LHR.
Sep 1, 2011, 6:59 pm
#94
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Argentina
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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, 7:04 pm
#95
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Mostly AUS or rural England
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And if I do take the DFW flight, why do I have to call and pay the telephone fees to MFU? Why can't their system offer me the load based upgrade for money? Heck, they even have codeshares on the AA flights between AUS~DFW.
Sep 1, 2011, 7:40 pm
#96
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Near Edinburgh
Programs: BA Silver
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Sep 1, 2011, 8:57 pm
#98
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Arlington, VA
Programs: United MP 1p, PC Ambassador, GP Platinum
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Sep 1, 2011, 9:07 pm
#100
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Arlington, VA
Programs: United MP 1p, PC Ambassador, GP Platinum
Posts: 439
There's still the chance that this won't be as bad as some of us think.
The last hope for US members who want to redeem for partner awards is that the new chart would have separate prices for US-Asia via Atlantic and US-Asia via Pacific.
The last hope for US members who want to redeem for partner awards is that the new chart would have separate prices for US-Asia via Atlantic and US-Asia via Pacific.
Sep 1, 2011, 9:12 pm
#101
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: FL
Programs: AAdvantage Elite Plat, HH Gold, SPG Gold, Hertz Gold, BA
Posts: 498
Chase customers are a small number of actual miles posted on BA programs. Whenever BA sells these miles to Chase, they are fully aware of the impact.
Sep 1, 2011, 9:26 pm
#102
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Auckland, NZ/New York, NY/ATL
Programs: DL DM MM, BIS 2.4MM, EK Gold, SQ Gold, Marriott Gold, HH Gold,
Posts: 5,222
The main question for me as many other is; what is going to happen to Wescoast-Asia with CX F redemptions. 75K BA miles in F eachway is how I use my BA and if that is going to be doubled, I will cancel my card and move on.
Sep 1, 2011, 9:35 pm
#103
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: OSL
Programs: BA Gold | SK Gold | A3 Gold
Posts: 4,553
While the reduction in mileage required for F/J awards to JFK, SIN etc is great for BAEC members, won't it just become extremely hard to get reward seats? Lower prices -> greater demand but constant supply.
And obviously, these seats aren't being taken away from paying pax! Or, do these routes have relatively low premium loads to allow the airline to give away redemptions for a much lower cost?
And obviously, these seats aren't being taken away from paying pax! Or, do these routes have relatively low premium loads to allow the airline to give away redemptions for a much lower cost?
Sep 1, 2011, 9:47 pm
#104
Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 101
I personally feel taken advantage of here
Like many in N.A. I transferred Amex miles to BA to use on long haul routes. I have roughly 500,000 and another 1,000,000 in my family. Clearly whatever the details are, there is going to be a significant devaluation of miles for us here in N.A.. Of course in their terms of service allow for them to do whatever they want. But I never would have transferred miles to them if there was advanced notice of what was about to happen put in place. The least they could do is grandfather old miles which other programs have done case by case. As a DFW passenger who also flies them on bus paid fair tickets to LHR, I am going to make all attempts to use AA instead and avoid giving these guys any additional income. I really hope they will reconsider how people with existing miles are treated but I realize that at the end of the day they could care less what we think.
Sep 1, 2011, 10:05 pm
#105
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Like many in N.A. I transferred Amex miles to BA to use on long haul routes. I have roughly 500,000 and another 1,000,000 in my family. Clearly whatever the details are, there is going to be a significant devaluation of miles for us here in N.A.. Of course in their terms of service allow for them to do whatever they want. But I never would have transferred miles to them if there was advanced notice of what was about to happen put in place. The least they could do is grandfather old miles which other programs have done case by case. As a DFW passenger who also flies them on bus paid fair tickets to LHR, I am going to make all attempts to use AA instead and avoid giving these guys any additional income. I really hope they will reconsider how people with existing miles are treated but I realize that at the end of the day they could care less what we think.