The Finnair höpö-höpö (nonsense) thread
Feb 21, 2022, 4:59 am
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Forget the sombreros, they take up too much space and cost too much. Fake mustaches -- Pancho Villa-style -- on board the Finnair flights will help Finnair burn less fuel than the same number of sombreros.
Feb 21, 2022, 5:39 am
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Feb 22, 2022, 1:45 am
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Feb 22, 2022, 3:05 am
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OT even for this thread, but non-the-less interesting development:
Avios | Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways Privilege Club is set to adopt Avios on a 1:1 ratio from Qmiles, giving you more power to choose how you spend the rewards of your loyalty.
Avios | Qatar Airways
Qatar Airways Privilege Club is set to adopt Avios on a 1:1 ratio from Qmiles, giving you more power to choose how you spend the rewards of your loyalty.
Feb 22, 2022, 3:11 am
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Interesting. Will it be both ways? I can't see any detailing on how it is meant to work, but if you can move Qmiles <-> Avios freely back-and-forth on a 1:1 basis, that would be a industry first and very interesting. In my case, not a BAEC member, but with a stash ov Qmiles that are hard to redeem, I could see myself moving them to BAEC if interesting redemptions are avilable.
Feb 22, 2022, 3:17 am
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Not a good development for consumers. This will likely hasten the devaluation trend, and award availability using partner program currencies will probably change faster because of such developments too.
QR will still have its program for status earning/retention/benefits, but the rebate currency for those using its program will be in the Avios realm. The QR rebate currency gets moved into -- and stuck in -- Avios, and there's not much QR program customers can do about that. Avios points won't move into QR's program.
QR will still have its program for status earning/retention/benefits, but the rebate currency for those using its program will be in the Avios realm. The QR rebate currency gets moved into -- and stuck in -- Avios, and there's not much QR program customers can do about that. Avios points won't move into QR's program.
Feb 22, 2022, 3:22 am
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Aha. Ouch.
So one will earn Qpoints and Avios, but they will still be inside QRPC account and any redemptions on eg BA will be via a partner award table (ie likely more expensive than a direct BAEC award) and availability will also be as partner awards (likely also worse).
Pretty useless for a QR flyer.
So one will earn Qpoints and Avios, but they will still be inside QRPC account and any redemptions on eg BA will be via a partner award table (ie likely more expensive than a direct BAEC award) and availability will also be as partner awards (likely also worse).
Pretty useless for a QR flyer.
Feb 22, 2022, 3:25 am
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I don't see any major benefits coming out of this for my earning miiles/points from QR flights for use on QR flights. I am not looking forward to what this will mean for my use of AA and AS miles for QR flights. [I don't usually have enough AY points to get much of anything out of the AY account, but whatever this means for AA and AS mile users for QR flights are likely to be at least somewhat reflective of what it means for AY redemptions for QR flights.]
Feb 22, 2022, 3:30 am
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Aha. Ouch.
So one will earn Qpoints and Avios, but they will still be inside QRPC account and any redemptions on eg BA will be via a partner award table (ie likely more expensive than a direct BAEC award) and availability will also be as partner awards (likely also worse).
Pretty useless for a QR flyer.
So one will earn Qpoints and Avios, but they will still be inside QRPC account and any redemptions on eg BA will be via a partner award table (ie likely more expensive than a direct BAEC award) and availability will also be as partner awards (likely also worse).
Pretty useless for a QR flyer.
Feb 22, 2022, 4:00 am
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