WP to decrease Y & B fare EQM from 150% to 100% on March 1
Jan 25, 2009 | 5:46 pm
#61
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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.
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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 5:48 pm
#62
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Nobody should be remotely surprised by this.
Jan 25, 2009 | 5:53 pm
#63
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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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 5:54 pm
#64
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Everytime one of these comes out I keep thinking "Well, that's that, what else is left to cut?!" Apparently quite a bit... 
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:04 pm
#65
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Do you know if travel booked before March 1 but travelling after March 1 would still get the 150%?
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:04 pm
#66
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This likely means that other fares are 50%
Just my guess given everything else they are doing.
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:10 pm
#67
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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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:15 pm
#68
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IMO this is still better than a no mileage accrual in other FF programs with discounted fares 
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:18 pm
#69
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Jan 25, 2009 | 6:24 pm
#70
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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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:31 pm
#71
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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.
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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:36 pm
#72
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Funny since DL is used to handing out MQM's like candy...
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:55 pm
#73
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Oh... my... word...
Guess all we have to do now is wait for the '09 Plat packages, get the confirms on the web pages, then individually identify how we're going to utilize '09 benefits, and qualify for '10 benefits.
This really, really suprised me. I just never saw this one coming. I was guessing we'd see changes at the bottom-end of the fare bucket... yet just not the top-end.
Guess all we have to do now is wait for the '09 Plat packages, get the confirms on the web pages, then individually identify how we're going to utilize '09 benefits, and qualify for '10 benefits.
This really, really suprised me. I just never saw this one coming. I was guessing we'd see changes at the bottom-end of the fare bucket... yet just not the top-end.
Jan 25, 2009 | 6:59 pm
#74
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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.
Jan 25, 2009 | 7:03 pm
#75
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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.
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.