Changes to redemption prices on partner airlines eff 30 May 2019
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i don’t think anyone has any idea about whether the MPR rates are changing.
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Imagine an author saying that he got to think that to be or not to be really is a question to answer with a link to another one of their pieces where they discuss the importance of being or not with a reference to Shakespeare half way. I think the blogging world still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to referencing and acknowledging intellectual property.
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OT, but since you mention their article - it would have been nice of them to acknowledge the preliminary work of the other blogger using the same methodology before them in that specific article rather than say that they 'got wind' and give a link to another one of their own articles where that reference is made in passing mid article.
Imagine an author saying that he got to think that to be or not to be really is a question to answer with a link to another one of their pieces where they discuss the importance of being or not with a reference to Shakespeare half way. I think the blogging world still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to referencing and acknowledging intellectual property.
Imagine an author saying that he got to think that to be or not to be really is a question to answer with a link to another one of their pieces where they discuss the importance of being or not with a reference to Shakespeare half way. I think the blogging world still has a lot of room for improvement when it comes to referencing and acknowledging intellectual property.
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I for one will believe it when I see it (1 June 2019?) and have decided to retain my few meagre avios on the basis of BA's statement that there'll be no devaluation for rewards on BA metal (for now).
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Yes of course, but it seems a number of people are nevertheless pinning their hopes on pure speculation, IME. I do hope (but not necessarily expect) that this speculation turns out to be correct, and I do wonder why BA is being rather coy about the details, if they are so minor.
I for one will believe it when I see it (1 June 2019?) and have decided to retain my few meagre avios on the basis of BA's statement that there'll be no devaluation for rewards on BA metal (for now).
I for one will believe it when I see it (1 June 2019?) and have decided to retain my few meagre avios on the basis of BA's statement that there'll be no devaluation for rewards on BA metal (for now).
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Quite a clever strategy to offer the '100% bonus Avios for 6 flights', and then just after the closing date announce that there will be a devaluation. I'm sure their will be quite a few peeved customers who booked extra flights. But hey-ho, this is BA.
Time to dump the Avios I have. I looked recently but there were virtually no F flights on CX or QR like there used to be (HKG-BKK, DOH-MCT etc), have they started restricting availability?
Time to dump the Avios I have. I looked recently but there were virtually no F flights on CX or QR like there used to be (HKG-BKK, DOH-MCT etc), have they started restricting availability?
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Where has all the CX Avios availability gone?
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But like you, I just don't think that is clear enough. If you write an article and give a reference to a previous article by yourself (specifically to a piece where you were citing x), it is not quite the same as citing x in the new article. What they did is just enough so that they precisely can't be accused of having poached the idea without giving credit to the original blogger, but made the reference more complicated/hidden than necessary so that many (probably most) readers of yesterday's post will not actually see the reference (you only see it if 1) you click on that particular link among many others - which is not even that tempting when you read this) and 2) read that linked article sufficiently well that you actually see the ref to seat31b. In other words, the threshold is pretty high while the crediting reference could and should really be obvious instead.
I'm not picking on them specifically, it is a fine and useful site, but I think that those kind of "borderline" referencing is frequent in blogs and websites and that is a bit unfortunate in my view. OT hat off I promise!!
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Do we really believe this will last long? Surely the rates for IAG metal will be brought into line soon enough, "In order to be fair to all our customers".
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CX reward availability has been much reduced since mid 2018. There was some discussion at the time
Where has all the CX Avios availability gone?
Where has all the CX Avios availability gone?
Still not as good as with AM, but that is to be expected. But you now get many regional flights that were completely missing a few months ago.
Regrading F, CX has only 6 seats, so availability is always scarce. CX tends to release F seats progressively, often near departure. Often, F seats are made available to AM first, and then released to partners a few days later if they are not picked up.
I know nothing about QR availability.