Is BA about to devalue Avios?
Aug 25, 2014, 6:49 pm
#137
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Have been reading comments throughout the various blogs regarding this Oneworld chart confussion. Many are saying that IB recently posted this chart and that online OW redemptions had become available.
Just to clarify, the OW chart has always been available on the website (pre & post Avios) and online OW redemptions were introduced at the same time as Avios, in November 2011. It began with only 3 or 4 airlines, with more being added over the course of time (11 at present).
Just to clarify, the OW chart has always been available on the website (pre & post Avios) and online OW redemptions were introduced at the same time as Avios, in November 2011. It began with only 3 or 4 airlines, with more being added over the course of time (11 at present).
Aug 25, 2014, 8:23 pm
#138
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Have been reading comments throughout the various blogs regarding this Oneworld chart confussion. Many are saying that IB recently posted this chart and that online OW redemptions had become available.
Just to clarify, the OW chart has always been available on the website (pre & post Avios) and online OW redemptions were introduced at the same time as Avios, in November 2011. It began with only 3 or 4 airlines, with more being added over the course of time (11 at present).
Just to clarify, the OW chart has always been available on the website (pre & post Avios) and online OW redemptions were introduced at the same time as Avios, in November 2011. It began with only 3 or 4 airlines, with more being added over the course of time (11 at present).
Aug 25, 2014, 8:55 pm
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Aug 26, 2014, 1:05 am
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http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/50351
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Aug 26, 2014, 5:52 am
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Sep 6, 2014, 8:47 pm
#146
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Climate change at travel loyalty programmes
Make no mistake. This is about the credit card craze tsunami washing up on the shores of Europe. It's not about making elites (feel) more elite. No matter how trivial on the airlines' books, the frequent flyer programs are profit centers. And the pernicious - yes pernicious - credit cards are now integral parts of the hosts. And they're salt water, if you will.
Or try this one: Those who feel they will escape the effects by jumping into the credit card lifeboat are going to have to paddle harder and harder as the lifeboat slumps. And the airline loyalty parts of Avios - either breed - will fade in the rear-view mirror. IB is afflicted more, sooner.
Using another analogy, those here moaning about the effect on the credit cards' value reflect again the FlyerTalk maxim borrowed from the American comic strip Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is us." But of course they don't see it.
Last, perhaps first: On which side of this lies the bloggers' interest? Hint: They're shouting "Bail!" and offering the rope.
Or try this one: Those who feel they will escape the effects by jumping into the credit card lifeboat are going to have to paddle harder and harder as the lifeboat slumps. And the airline loyalty parts of Avios - either breed - will fade in the rear-view mirror. IB is afflicted more, sooner.
Using another analogy, those here moaning about the effect on the credit cards' value reflect again the FlyerTalk maxim borrowed from the American comic strip Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is us." But of course they don't see it.
Last, perhaps first: On which side of this lies the bloggers' interest? Hint: They're shouting "Bail!" and offering the rope.
Sep 7, 2014, 10:09 am
#147
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Make no mistake. This is about the credit card craze tsunami washing up on the shores of Europe. It's not about making elites (feel) more elite. No matter how trivial on the airlines' books, the frequent flyer programs are profit centers. And the pernicious - yes pernicious - credit cards are now integral parts of the hosts. And they're salt water, if you will.
Or try this one: Those who feel they will escape the effects by jumping into the credit card lifeboat are going to have to paddle harder and harder as the lifeboat slumps. And the airline loyalty parts of Avios - either breed - will fade in the rear-view mirror. IB is afflicted more, sooner.
Using another analogy, those here moaning about the effect on the credit cards' value reflect again the FlyerTalk maxim borrowed from the American comic strip Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is us." But of course they don't see it.
Last, perhaps first: On which side of this lies the bloggers' interest? Hint: They're shouting "Bail!" and offering the rope.
Or try this one: Those who feel they will escape the effects by jumping into the credit card lifeboat are going to have to paddle harder and harder as the lifeboat slumps. And the airline loyalty parts of Avios - either breed - will fade in the rear-view mirror. IB is afflicted more, sooner.
Using another analogy, those here moaning about the effect on the credit cards' value reflect again the FlyerTalk maxim borrowed from the American comic strip Pogo: "We have met the enemy and it is us." But of course they don't see it.
Last, perhaps first: On which side of this lies the bloggers' interest? Hint: They're shouting "Bail!" and offering the rope.
Do remember though that EU FFPs have always had high taxes and, certainly in the last decade or so, high fuel surcharges.