JetBlue & Emirates Expanded Partnership
May 14, 2013, 3:20 pm
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JetBlue & Emirates Expanded Partnership
Announced today:
http://investor.jetblue.com/phoenix....443&highlight=
My question is this paragraph:
"Members of Skywards, the Emirates reward program, can earn miles on JetBlue-operated flights and also redeem miles for flights to any of JetBlue's 77 destinations (and counting) throughout the Americas. Similarly, members of JetBlue's TrueBlue loyalty program can earn points for Emirates-operated flights worldwide."
It does not mention JetBlue point redemption for Emirates flights.
I find that interesting because if anything, JetBlue uses a revenue based point accrual vs. traditional airline miles.
To me, it would be advantageous to offer TrueBlue point based redepmtions based on Emirates fares --- rather than letting people on other carriers redeem miles for Business/First on Emirates that they may have accrued at some ridiculous rate like $0.2 cpm.
http://investor.jetblue.com/phoenix....443&highlight=
My question is this paragraph:
"Members of Skywards, the Emirates reward program, can earn miles on JetBlue-operated flights and also redeem miles for flights to any of JetBlue's 77 destinations (and counting) throughout the Americas. Similarly, members of JetBlue's TrueBlue loyalty program can earn points for Emirates-operated flights worldwide."
It does not mention JetBlue point redemption for Emirates flights.
I find that interesting because if anything, JetBlue uses a revenue based point accrual vs. traditional airline miles.
To me, it would be advantageous to offer TrueBlue point based redepmtions based on Emirates fares --- rather than letting people on other carriers redeem miles for Business/First on Emirates that they may have accrued at some ridiculous rate like $0.2 cpm.
May 14, 2013, 5:13 pm
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Announced today:
http://investor.jetblue.com/phoenix....443&highlight=
My question is this paragraph:
"Members of Skywards, the Emirates reward program, can earn miles on JetBlue-operated flights and also redeem miles for flights to any of JetBlue's 77 destinations (and counting) throughout the Americas. Similarly, members of JetBlue's TrueBlue loyalty program can earn points for Emirates-operated flights worldwide."
It does not mention JetBlue point redemption for Emirates flights.
I find that interesting because if anything, JetBlue uses a revenue based point accrual vs. traditional airline miles.
To me, it would be advantageous to offer TrueBlue point based redepmtions based on Emirates fares --- rather than letting people on other carriers redeem miles for Business/First on Emirates that they may have accrued at some ridiculous rate like $0.2 cpm.
http://investor.jetblue.com/phoenix....443&highlight=
My question is this paragraph:
"Members of Skywards, the Emirates reward program, can earn miles on JetBlue-operated flights and also redeem miles for flights to any of JetBlue's 77 destinations (and counting) throughout the Americas. Similarly, members of JetBlue's TrueBlue loyalty program can earn points for Emirates-operated flights worldwide."
It does not mention JetBlue point redemption for Emirates flights.
I find that interesting because if anything, JetBlue uses a revenue based point accrual vs. traditional airline miles.
To me, it would be advantageous to offer TrueBlue point based redepmtions based on Emirates fares --- rather than letting people on other carriers redeem miles for Business/First on Emirates that they may have accrued at some ridiculous rate like $0.2 cpm.
You can earn and burn on JetBlue in Emirates Skywards program but you can only earn on Emirates with TrueBlue. I don't know if that is going to change anytime soon. Emirates may be the party holding this up since they may not want to give a JetBlue flyer who has hoarded points and has never flown Emirates a suite on a JFK-DXB flight.
May 14, 2013, 5:21 pm
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You can earn and burn on JetBlue in Emirates Skywards program but you can only earn on Emirates with TrueBlue. I don't know if that is going to change anytime soon. Emirates may be the party holding this up since they may not want to give a JetBlue flyer who has hoarded points and has never flown Emirates a suite on a JFK-DXB flight.
May 14, 2013, 5:42 pm
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Would probably just be quickest and easier to allow moving points/miles from one program to the other. I would much rather have my EK miles transferred directly to jetBlue to claim an award any time I wanted than be told by EK that jetBlue has no award seats from California to NYC for the whole summer.
I doubt there are very many True Blue members that have 100,000s of True Blue points that would be need to claim an award on Emirates from the US. Being able to transfer points from True Blue to top up a Skywards account may be useful to some.
I have found that being based in California means that EK miles are useless to me as it is impossible to redeem them for anything useful--even with well over 100,000 miles accumulated.
I doubt there are very many True Blue members that have 100,000s of True Blue points that would be need to claim an award on Emirates from the US. Being able to transfer points from True Blue to top up a Skywards account may be useful to some.
I have found that being based in California means that EK miles are useless to me as it is impossible to redeem them for anything useful--even with well over 100,000 miles accumulated.
May 14, 2013, 5:47 pm
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Would probably just be quickest and easier to allow moving points/miles from one program to the other. I would much rather have my EK miles transferred directly to jetBlue to claim an award any time I wanted than be told by EK that jetBlue has no award seats from California to NYC for the whole summer.
I doubt there are very many True Blue members that have 100,000s of True Blue points that would be need to claim an award on Emirates from the US. Being able to transfer points from True Blue to top up a Skywards account may be useful to some.
I have found that being based in California means that EK miles are useless to me as it is impossible to redeem them for anything useful--even with well over 100,000 miles accumulated.
I doubt there are very many True Blue members that have 100,000s of True Blue points that would be need to claim an award on Emirates from the US. Being able to transfer points from True Blue to top up a Skywards account may be useful to some.
I have found that being based in California means that EK miles are useless to me as it is impossible to redeem them for anything useful--even with well over 100,000 miles accumulated.
May 14, 2013, 9:00 pm
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