Sneak Peak at 2009 WorldPerks Program
Dec 4, 2008, 9:16 am
#1
Company Representative - Northwest Airlines
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: MSP
Programs: NW WorldPerks
Posts: 377
Sneak Peak at 2009 WorldPerks Program
Hello,
We have some exciting news that is going out today. Effective January 1, 2009, you'll be able to earn Elite Qualifying Segments on all Delta-operated flights. As you are already aware of, you need 100 segments to qualify for Platinum, 60 for Gold and 30 for Silver. This should help you even more as you try to obtain/maintain WorldPerks Elite status.
The other news I have is that we're introducing a new mileage award level that offers increased availability over the current PerkSaver. This will begin in mid-January 2009. The new level will be quoted as a PerkPass award and will be automatically given to you when you book on nwa.com.
As a reminder, we've eliminated our fuel surcharges for award tickets and are currently offering complimentary Elite upgrades on Northwest and Delta-operated flights.
Those are all the program changes for now, and I'll be sure to keep you all posted as we move forward with merging the two loyalty programs.
We have some exciting news that is going out today. Effective January 1, 2009, you'll be able to earn Elite Qualifying Segments on all Delta-operated flights. As you are already aware of, you need 100 segments to qualify for Platinum, 60 for Gold and 30 for Silver. This should help you even more as you try to obtain/maintain WorldPerks Elite status.
The other news I have is that we're introducing a new mileage award level that offers increased availability over the current PerkSaver. This will begin in mid-January 2009. The new level will be quoted as a PerkPass award and will be automatically given to you when you book on nwa.com.
As a reminder, we've eliminated our fuel surcharges for award tickets and are currently offering complimentary Elite upgrades on Northwest and Delta-operated flights.
Those are all the program changes for now, and I'll be sure to keep you all posted as we move forward with merging the two loyalty programs.
Dec 4, 2008, 9:18 am
#2
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: SEA, NW/DL 1.6Million Miler
Programs: DL 1MM Annual Silver,AS 100K 22-24, AS 75K 15-21
Posts: 4,278
Not the complete listing of changes...
As the details only pertains to benefits for Skymiles members, It's pretty obvious that this is just a short listing of the preliminary changes.
Major changes I expect will be forthcoming......
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
6. Companion domestic upgrades (ADDED 12/11)
Did I miss anything???
Jiburi
PS-Above 5 listing is only a speculation at the moment.....
Major changes I expect will be forthcoming......
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
6. Companion domestic upgrades (ADDED 12/11)
Did I miss anything???
Jiburi
PS-Above 5 listing is only a speculation at the moment.....
Last edited by jiburi; Dec 11, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Dec 4, 2008, 9:24 am
#3
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2001
Programs: DL 1 million, AA 1 mil, HH lapsed Diamond, Marriott Plat
Posts: 28,190
Adding: Normalizing award levels (gutting WP to its partisans!) is a necessary step before allowing miles to be transferred between programs. Maybe that capability is coming along pretty soon.
Last edited by 3Cforme; Dec 4, 2008 at 9:43 am
Dec 4, 2008, 9:29 am
#4
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Posts: 3,395
No real down and dirty details other than the three tier award system. I certaintly am glad the word "Meh" was just added to the dictionary.
Dec 4, 2008, 9:33 am
#5
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Posts: 3,395
Good call, I missed that the first time reading through. Umm... I will be a little more direct and say Scoopy is doing everyone a favor and telling you have until the middle of next month to dump your NW miles.
Dec 4, 2008, 9:43 am
#6
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: GEG (Spokane, WA)
Programs: Delta Plat, MM, AS MVP, Lifetime Skyclub, HHonors Lifetime Diamond, National Exec Elite, IHG Gold
Posts: 808
Bonus miles
Does this still mean that we will only get 100% bonus miles as a Plat on Dl or do we now get 125% like on NW?
Dec 4, 2008, 9:46 am
#7
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Major changes I expect will be forthcoming......
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
(I grant you probability approaches 1 on #3.)
Dec 4, 2008, 9:48 am
#8
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Washington, DC, Chapel Hill, NC (RDU)
Programs: DL Plat (won't hit DM again) 2MM (2.5), HH Gold, PC Gold, Hyatt Plat
Posts: 5,626
Maybe I'm being a naive optimist, but in some random searches, I've found reasonalbe DL availability at their equivalatent of perk saver, not the intermediat level. At least for international business class. I'm williing to wait and see what happens.
tom
tom
Dec 4, 2008, 10:06 am
#9
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Dec 4, 2008, 10:07 am
#10
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Marylebone
Programs: BA/BD Gold, UA Silver
Posts: 1,873
Ick
My ick is with regards to NWA moving to 3-tiered award structure.
Dec 4, 2008, 10:20 am
#11
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MEL
Programs: DL, QF, QR Gold, MR Lifetime Gold
Posts: 7,002
3 tiers, but with or without further devaluation?
Does that mean that the mileage award chart is changing to match Delta's? Example: Take a RT to Europe in Y. Right now, it's 50k/100k WP miles, or 60k/90k/125k SM miles. Introducing another tier is one thing; increasing the lowest (Saver) award from 50k to 60k is another. (Another example: the lowest NW award to Hawai`i is 35k in Y, for DL it's 40k.)
Dec 4, 2008, 10:24 am
#12
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
Programs: United1K, AA ExPlAAt, DL MM/Gold, Hilton Diamond, Avis First
Posts: 13,316
Does that mean that the mileage award chart is changing to match Delta's? Example: Take a RT to Europe in Y. Right now, it's 50k/100k WP miles, or 60k/90k/125k SM miles. Introducing another tier is one thing; increasing the lowest (Saver) award from 50k to 60k is another. (Another example: the lowest NW award to Hawai`i is 35k in Y, for DL it's 40k.)
Dec 4, 2008, 10:33 am
#13
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: AMS, LHR
Programs: FlyingBlue (Platinum); AA (Executive Plat); BAEC (Silver), SPG (Platinum); Hilton (Diamond)
Posts: 696
What about SWU's
A previous thread had an article that speculated NWA Plats would get the DL Plat SWU upgrades. Any idea if this is going to happen? I'm not going to get them via ExtraPerks so I'd sure like to see this...
Dec 4, 2008, 10:35 am
#14
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Victoria, B.C.
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, AA Gold LT
Posts: 1,937
As the details only pertains to benefits for Skymiles members, It's pretty obvious that this is just a short listing of the preliminary changes.
Major changes I expect will be forthcoming......
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
Did I miss anything???
Jiburi
Major changes I expect will be forthcoming......
1. Reduction of 125% to 100% of Platinum Bonus Miles on NW flights
2. Elimination of complimentary upgrades on domestic economy award travel.
3. Discontinuation of upgrades on CO. (Pretty big one)
4. Elimination of Elite ExtraPerk Privileges
5. Increase of Worldclub/Crown Room Dues (or reduced discounts)
Did I miss anything???
Jiburi
Domestic, will domestic upgrades with miles only be allowed on Y/B/M fares now? International ??
Dec 4, 2008, 10:48 am
#15
Join Date: Jul 2005
Programs: DL GM - Make that PM now!/Airtran not any more
Posts: 193