JP Accrual and Redemption Changes
 

Just scanning through for some redemption in Oct'14 and found that the miles needed are increased by 1000 miles for some sectors.

Eg: MAA - TRZ used to be 4000 miles and now quoted at 5000 miles.

I do not remember seeing a notice from Jet on this.

PS: for some sectors, its reduced as well.

It seems minimum miles required are 5000 now instead of 4000 miles for sector like BLR- MAA, DEL-JAI ETC.
Most of the sectors they seems to have reduced the miles requirement by 20% or so like BOM-DEL is now at 8500 instead of 10500, BLR-DEL is 12000 instead of 15000 but there seems to be no official word still.

While the domestic is more an adjustment, the international chart has been officially gutted with 50-60% hike in the number of miles across the board, and it has been done with immediate effect so that you don't get to sneak in a booking.

Shameful move by Jet which will certainly hurt their brand more than it gives them any sort of gains.

DEL-LHR Return in Business Class used to be 1,08,000 miles, now 1,70,000 miles.

Disaster. Will seriously consider moving away from ICICI Jet Card now.

Thats the end of the AMEX/other JET cards. Now to move to Citi PM.

The online partner award form still shows the old miles required for partners. Has that been changed too?

Just checked and now its back to old mileage chart on domestic as well international route for 9w redemption !!!

Continuing from my earlier post, I talked to the head of JP, who explained to me that over the next 3 months a lot of changes are coming to the JP program, which will start with enhancements to accruals and on Sep 1 the redemption chart will see a hike, but YQ will go away.

As always thanks AJ for the info !!

With the above in mind, could we change the Thread Title to "JP Changes" or something similar, so as to keep track of all changes / modifications to come.

I agree.

Got an email today about accruals:

http://www.jetairways.com/EN/GL/JetP...nJPMiles1.aspx

Thread title updated. Also added a wiki. Please feel free to update/edit.

Thanks,
AJLondon
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No mention of earlier cabin bonus for Gold & Plats ( 20 & 30%)..It seems that they are gone. Also B class booking in 9W & Z in S2 are now with 75% & 50% miles repectively against 100% & 75% miles earlier

http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/JetP...rivileges.aspx

10% / 20% / 30% Bonus for Silver / Gold / Platinum members respectively.

Cabin bonus is 50% in J & 100% in F irrespective of JP Status.

There is no mention of this for new rules effective 1st Aug

http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/JetP...nJPMiles1.aspx

Why redeem in Jet Premiere when for less you can get Jet First.


Only in the land of lala, you get the perverse situation of LHR flights in First costing 162K whilst the less private Premiere costs 170k.

Are they kidding? 162k return for Premiere???? That means you need to take 114 return DEL-BOM flights to get one ticket to UK. For someone that flies once in a month that means 10 years! But then miles expire 3 years or so after they are earnt so you got no hope.

Glad I shifted 2 years back.

I got mine through a month back. Haven't even activated it.

No, No, No....your maths is wrong.

It's actually worse....you need 170K to redeem (RT) in Premiere!!!

The airline really seems desperate to kill off its program's remaining value to frequent flyers.

This kind of move by 9W after AI became a Star Alliance member helps cement my dumping of loyalty toward 9W for other carriers in India, especially for AI.

On the positive side, there will be no YQ - does this apply to partner rewards as well?

with its ever decreasing customer service .. Jet can say bye bye to many frequent travellers and then this..

it all depends on what the hike is like....if its a 10-20% increase with yq going away then i welcome this change....

itwill be 50-60%

awaiting launch of tata-sia with more eagerness everyday... cant come soon enough..

In that case, the JP miles would be more or less = 50 paise each.

sucks....i'm happy i've used up pretty much all my jp miles....

Likewise. I am down to 1.3L from 5L+ year and a half back. Have reedemed most of them on domestic routes, so got excellent value for money. Being a plat, I am able to book a revenue ticket and cancel it at the last moment (at no cost) since more often than not, award tickets are available a day before the flight.

for domestic redemptions a lot of sectors will go down, for international they will go up. that is the summary of how redemption adjustments will happen. I was told email would go out on 1 august but not yet. maybe in a few more days then

Along with all the re-shuffle, wouldn't it be a wise decision to replace Jet Privilege with Etihad Guest..?

So the new redemption chart is out..

http://www.jetairways.com/doc/Mileage-Chart.pdf

Domestic redemptions have actually decreased across many metro sectors.. BOM-DEL is now 17k/8.5k in Y/J compared to 21/10.5. Similarly BOM-BLR is now 13/6.5 and BOM-MAA is 15/7.5

International redemptions have shot up but the YQ is fully taken off.. Cant search for the new redemptions and YQ charges yet.

Basically now use the miles for domestic travels and the money for international !

Any idea about how partner redemptions will change?

I am guessing they should also be affected upwardly.

Time to dump!
 

Time to off load this load of crap and move to BA. Even with the surcharges taken off, there is no justification for the level of increase in the miles required for international redemptions! They'll be having more empty planes now. I think they listened to the complaints that people aren't ever able to get redemption seats, well there will be plenty available now ;)

Thanks Anish for the chart link.

Horrible news for those of us who redeem premium cabin international. :(

This is insane increase. Some sectors the increase is more than 50%.

Yup! DEL-HKG, DEL-SIN, DEL-LHR, DEL-YYZ etc all go up by at least 50% or more!! :td:

What just made my jaw drop is that a BOM-EWR in F now needs 450k miles for the round trip! :eek:

These enhancements are a result of continuous feedback from our valued members like you to improve the value of JPMiles and to simplify the redemption charges structure.

Haha.. Straight on our heads ! On one side airlines are offering discount on fares and people are travelling for cheaper that AC rail fares, on the other side they want their frequent travellers to go away to something else.

I am looking at the new redemption chart. Does it make sense to use JP Miles for Economy redemption in International sector?

For eg: currently for economy redemption BOM-BKK one needs 20K miles + ~7.5K INR one way, which becomes 22.5K miles + ~1.5K INR

Similarly for BOM-SIN sector, currently one needs 20K miles + 10K INR one way, which changes to 30K miles + ~2K.

May be it makes sense to use JPMiles for last minute international economy redemption rather than business/first.