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KO2546 Feb 17, 2009 6:56 am
Another meaningless promotion from KA...
 
For those who thought the 2X miles J class to PVG or TPE was a joke, take a look at the latest promotion from KA.

Fly your way to a free holiday or 38,888 Asia Miles with Dragonair!

For residents of Hong Kong and Macau only

Sign-up for Asia Miles now and you’ll be eligible to join Dragonair’s Fly & Win promotion – where every ticket you purchase online gets you closer to a free holiday! Simply register online for this promotion and fly in any class, to any destination in the Dragonair network during the promotion period. The more you fly, the greater your chances of winning – and the top 3 flyers with the most ticket purchases will win big!

1st Prize 3-day/2-night Kota Kinabalu Package at Shangri-La’s Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa
2nd Prize 3-day/2-night Shanghai Package at the Radisson Hotel Shanghai New World
3rd Prize 38,888 Asia Miles

Registration Period:
16 Feb 2009 - 31 May 2009

Travel period:
16 Feb 2009 - 31 May 2009
The way I read this is, unless you are one of the top three frequent KA flyers, then you get nothing. Great.

ny911 Feb 17, 2009 8:05 am
tedhl should register this.

christep Feb 17, 2009 8:21 am
Fly KA 50 times this month and as a prize you can fly once more!

What sort of idiot thinks these things up? Have they ever even flown on a plane?

The 3rd prize is the 1st prize as far as any regular flyer is concerned.

Jane's Addiction Feb 17, 2009 8:25 am
Originally Posted by christep (Post 11271862)
Fly KA 50 times this month and as a prize you can fly once more!

What sort of idiot thinks these things up? Have they ever even flown on a plane?

The 3rd prize is the 1st prize as far as any regular flyer is concerned.

I would have thought the last thing in the world the 2nd most frequent KA flyer would want is a 3 day package vacation to a Radisson in Shanghai...

QRC3288 Feb 17, 2009 9:42 am
Originally Posted by christep (Post 11271862)
Fly KA 50 times this month and as a prize you can fly once more!

What sort of idiot thinks these things up? Have they ever even flown on a plane?

The 3rd prize is the 1st prize as far as any regular flyer is concerned.
Not to mention the value of any of the prizes are going to be worth some ridiculous fraction of whatever was spent flying to win the award in the first place

hau cheng Feb 17, 2009 4:44 pm
Judging by the prizes I think they have a poor understanding of their target markets

tedhl Feb 17, 2009 4:45 pm
Originally Posted by ny911 (Post 11271785)
tedhl should register this.
I thought about it too, but then:
  • the promotion only applies to tickets booked online; I tried it a couple of months ago for a few weeks when they had this 2x miles promo (not the J/F one, but 2x for tickets booked online), and overall not happy with the experience - the online engine itself isn't that stable (e.g. if I remember right that promo applies only to KA-operated and marketed flights, but when I buy at KA.com it often comes back to me with CX numbered flights only, really wasted me a lot of time; now it seems more consistent), seat clearly reserved during booking but during online check-in it's shown as no seats reserved and have to select again (it happened only once but e-service center couldn't really explain and they are not following up and replying my emails), bonus miles still not yet posted (I don't quite remember the details of the promo, but it ended a month or so ago already and some of my flights were like 2 months ago), etc
  • overall now when I go back to the original way of just emailing my assistant to book tickets via agent, it's just much easier, just tell her the dates/times and she asks the agents to do the rest; can hold and not issue immediately (while online you have to ticket immediately, and afterwards if you want to change - MPO cannot change outbound first flight, have to call e-service center to re-issue, quite complicated overall vs. doing via agent); instead of me wasting lots of times in front of the computer to do the booking and helping them debug the system... :(
  • I don't know how much is top 3, no clear target for me - is my weekly roundtrip enough ? if I waste all these extra efforts buying the 15+ roundtrips online myself during this period and end up not in top 3 - then it's really quite silly; at least for the last promo, I know I'm getting 2x for every flight at least
  • as someone mentioned, the 2nd-prize is indeed quite a joke for frequent KA travelers, I assume a good % of them already have their frequent trips to SH, esp the top 3
  • the first prize is still ok, if it gives me the option to upgrade to J with miles (or at least with cash) - usually my vacation trips with family are always in J/F because I think it's to partly thank/compensate them for the so much time I'm spending away from home and at least they can find some value from my miles that I earn from all these travels

KO2546 Feb 17, 2009 7:56 pm
Originally Posted by christep (Post 11271862)
Fly KA 50 times this month and as a prize you can fly once more!
That's what made the previous promotion equally unattractive...

"Fly Cathay Pacific or Dragonair Business Class to Shanghai, fly more to earn another trip! With double miles for each round-trip and 10,000 bonus miles when you fly four round-trip or more, that’s enough to redeem another Economy Class round-trip to Shanghai!"

Originally Posted by christep (Post 11271862)
The 3rd prize is the 1st prize as far as any regular flyer is concerned.
Agree, which is why I am going make sure I fly less often than tedhl and one other person! :D The message to KA is that I will fly LESS with them because of this promotion.

It's a race for third place guys!


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