Will AY Extend elite status or otherwise incentivize travel postponed by COVID-19?
Dec 22, 2021, 6:33 am
#496
Moderator, Finnair
Join Date: May 2011
Location: MMX (CPH)
Programs: Eurobonus Diamond, QR Gold, AY+ Platinum, A3*G, Nordic Choice Lifetime Platinum, SJ Prio Black
Posts: 14,178
Piggy-backing on your post. QR just told me they extended my platinum with them 1 year. Looks like the purchasing status dilemma was solved.
Dec 22, 2021, 7:45 am
#497
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: HEL
Programs: AY, SK, TK
Posts: 7,602
Airline points programmes are already completely rigged such that the airlines cannot lose money. The more activity they can generate around their points programmes the more they win. Let's not forget they also hold unilateral power to make changes to the T&C.
For as long as they keep e.g. the Platinum Wing closed and reduce other benefits due to cost-saving measures, diluting the value of Platinum status, the status should be extended. Otherwise the result is that they just 'enhanced' the experience, i.e. diluted the value. I do not see any info about the Platinum Wing opening, so therefore I expect at least another 6-month extension.
For as long as they keep e.g. the Platinum Wing closed and reduce other benefits due to cost-saving measures, diluting the value of Platinum status, the status should be extended. Otherwise the result is that they just 'enhanced' the experience, i.e. diluted the value. I do not see any info about the Platinum Wing opening, so therefore I expect at least another 6-month extension.
It should be other way, get the same savings by keeping high quality on bennies for fewer plats who in fact fly and stat loyal.
Dec 22, 2021, 7:57 am
#498
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: AY+ Lumo, HH Diamond
Posts: 503
Understand but think this is wrong way, namely giving out all plat cards anf creating too big plat hoard under cost pressure and then rip all those bennies off to save costs.
It should be other way, get the same savings by keeping high quality on bennies for fewer plats who in fact fly and stat loyal.
It should be other way, get the same savings by keeping high quality on bennies for fewer plats who in fact fly and stat loyal.
Dec 22, 2021, 8:24 am
#499
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: HEL
Programs: lots of shiny metal cards
Posts: 14,107
I personally hate business travel via BKK as planes are full of tourists. Very rarely my destination is Bangkok, so I can choose transit point. But BKK is very important transit-point and destination for many business travellers going to the area. Singapore is 2 hours "wrong way", HKG used to be best in area, but in future I believe HKG will become less desirable due to new policies.
I have (had?) BKK both as a destination and as a connecting point for Indochina (LA, VN, MM even MY) usually combining the two. HKG is not really as useful for those. For me the lure of Honkers is gone anyway, due to the mainlandization/crackdown/etc we have been seeing - though I love that city.
SIN is another important connecting point both for the rest of SEA and Ozzie/Kiwi but as you say it, for Indochina it's the "wrong way"
Dec 22, 2021, 8:31 am
#500
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Helsinki-Vantaa APT, Finland
Programs: AY LUMO
Posts: 6,059
Dec 22, 2021, 9:33 am
#501
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: try to stay home
Programs: AY, M&M, BAEC ...and don t care of status anymore
Posts: 2,042
Dec 23, 2021, 1:14 am
#503
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: try to stay home
Programs: AY, M&M, BAEC ...and don t care of status anymore
Posts: 2,042
May 30, 2022, 2:51 am
#504
Moderator, Finnair
Join Date: May 2011
Location: MMX (CPH)
Programs: Eurobonus Diamond, QR Gold, AY+ Platinum, A3*G, Nordic Choice Lifetime Platinum, SJ Prio Black
Posts: 14,178
Well, it took 35 months of membership "year" to come this far, so can I please have the next membership year to be three years long?
