More Rewards Flights?
 

I tried to reschedule an awards flight on Delta only to be informed their were no awards seats available for the new date. The airlines are talking about cutting back because of reduced travel. Why not open up more rewards tickets! 1.Fill the empty seats, the planes are going anyway. 2. Reduce some of the backlog of frequent flier miles their always grumbling about. 3.Have the opportunity to boast about how full your flights are by letting the public show their not afraid to fly. It's makes logical and simple sense to me, of course I'm not the president of the airlines. What do you think?

I agree w/ you...it doesn't make sense.

Agree three.

FF points are a libility on their books and growing all the time. In a terrible tough time like this, why not allow pretty much open inventory for redmeption seats, fill the planes, and reduce the liabilty.

I was told that since the airlines need cash so desperately, they are cutting back on award seats in hope that people will give up and buy tickets.

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They should encourage the use of rewards to get folks back in the air and realize that it is still the safest form of travel--even with the 266 air deaths from 9-11. More folks have been killed driving cars since that time. The drop off in flying is understandable but based on emotion. The AL's should do anything that gets folks back in the air.

With their fresh infusion of cash from the Feds I'm betting they'l do just that. I expect that the next step will be to open seats to award travel to fill seats any way possible to show travel is safe. It's a definite win-win.