Wow I am shocked.;) Didn't NW aquire DL? Wasn't NW supposed to dictate terms on this? Didn't Doug promise a brand new FFP first in its class? Oh wait .....

Safe Travels.

Nobody should be remotely surprised by this.

I am not surprised by it, and that was the reason I called up to ask the PE agents. I am only surprised it's not buried in some promotional email from NW, or communicated to us in any other stealth way.

Everytime one of these comes out I keep thinking "Well, that's that, what else is left to cut?!" Apparently quite a bit... :rolleyes:

Do you know if travel booked before March 1 but travelling after March 1 would still get the 150%?

This likely means that other fares are 50%
 

Just my guess given everything else they are doing.

I would look at what Flying Blue does. That seems to be the model they are going towards. We know about the EQM bonuses. I would not be surprised is LUT goes to 70%, 50% or less. We just don't know about it yet.

IMO this is still better than a no mileage accrual in other FF programs with discounted fares :)

I don't know. I only asked if EQM would still be 150% or decrease to 100% like on DL.

We never gave them a chance to bury it. We speculated that it was happening when some DL elites read the find print in their 2009 packages.

However, I take the confirmation as further evidence of the way in program mergers has been totally botched. That's no way to convey changes to your customers.

That is my biggest issue. I know nothing about this years program. Everything is a guess.

Funny since DL is used to handing out MQM's like candy...

Shhh, US still charges for water. DL will start doing that too, but only to elites.


I think this year's Elite package will be the most I've not looked forward to getting.

Ahh! But most of the candy MQM promos appear to be ones where the partner was paying for it. I'm willing to bet you'll still be able to make SM or GM by charging a crap load of money to the Amex and registering for a few choice lodging/car offers.

Great...let the fleecing continue

DL WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO COMMUNICATE THIS TO US?????
Come clean all at once. You are proving to be a very shady, shady airline.

I'm sick and tired of finding out about this stuff on speculative threads on this site bit by bit.

So great I can continue to by my $1200 B fare on the Saab to get a total of 1000 EQM for the r/t, when I would've gotten 1500 EQM in the past, meanwhile I can fly r/t to LAS on a $300 K fare and get ~3500 EQM.