Southwest Airlines, effective on or before April 19, 2016 with no notice, raised the minimum redemption price from 70 to 72 points per dollar, a 3% devaluation. Southwest has now devalued redemption rates every April for three years running with increased stealth each time.

Schadenfreude, recrimination, outrage, and resignation can be found at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/south...es-72-pts.html

I assume you mean 2016?

Oops, fixed. Thanks!

General devaluation article.

Not sure if it belongs here.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/americ...161607045.html

American just quietly pulled much availability to match SkyPesos availability. Doug Parker knows how to run an airline into the ground.

Delta provides complimentary Sky Club access for Diamond Medallion members. Previously, if one already had a Sky Club membership upon attaining Diamond status, the membership was extended. Delta no longer extends Sky Club memberships; rather, the complimentary Diamond membership runs concurrently with any previously purchased memberships.

Delta has eliminated the ability to route between the US and the Southwest Pacific via Asia on award tickets. This effectively eliminates the primary method for traveling to the Southwest Pacific at saver mileage levels (partners such as KE, CI, CZ, MU).

I can almost never redeem AA miles on AA metal anymore. But I am able to redeem on Oneworld alliance partners quite easily and that still make AA miles worthwhile imo).

Delta seems to have "quietly" devalued their redemption "chart". A year ago I got a business class round trip USA<->Europe for 125k (62.5k one way), and just months ago I saw posts on people getting the same redemption rate. But now the third-party-generated Delta chart shows it's 140k round trip (70k one way):
and some checks on Delta's web site for the same route I flew earlier this year (but reserved late last year) for 125k round trip show the same thing, "lowest price" being 140k round trip.