Hi everyone,

I hate to bother you, but I was wondering if anyone would answer the survey question for me. That's about Frequent Flyer Programs.

I'm taking the Internet Marketing Research in NYU and have to conduct a survey as a term project, but I don't have many acquaitances in NY, because I am an international student from Japan. So, I need your help.

All you have to do is to answer the following questions below, and send email with your answer to me at [email protected]. Maybe it will take 5 minutes or so. Thank you in advance!!

Satoshi


>>Following is my survey.
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Survey Topic: Frequent Flyer Programs
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#1.Sex
a. Male
b. Female

Your answer____________________________________

#2.Age
a. Generation X-Y (18-34)
b. Baby Boomers (35-53)
c. Matures (54 or older)
d. No answer

Your answer____________________________________

#3.Occupation
a. Employed full time
b. Employed part time
c. Retired
d. Homemaker
e. Full time student
d. Unemployed or laid off
f. Other/refused
g. Self employed
h. No answer

Your answer____________________________________

#4.How many international trips by air do you take annually?
(including both business and pleasure trips)
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. 6-10
g. more than10

Your answer____________________________________

#5.How many domestic trips by air do you take annually?
(including both business and pleasure trips)
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. 6-10
g. more than10

Your answer____________________________________

#6.What is the primary purpose of your air travel?
(Min response: 1 / Max response: 4)
a. Business
b. Vacation/Holiday/Leisure
c. Visit friends and relatives
d. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#7.Please check the three most important factors you consider when choosing an airline?
a. Service
b. Price
c. Comfort
d. Schedules
e. Reliability
f. Safety
g. Frequent Flyer Programs
h. Food & Drink
i. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#8.Do you belong to any frequent flyer programs?
a. Yes
b. No
"No" --> Skip to question #16


Your answer____________________________________

#9.How Many Frequent Flyer Programs do you belong to?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. more than6

Your answer____________________________________

#10.Please choose your favorite frequent flyer programs from the below list.
(Min response: 1 / Max response: 11)

a. Air Canada Aeroplan
b. American West FlightFund
c. American Aadvantage
d. Continental Airlines OnePass
e. Delta SkyMiles
f. Midwest Express Frequent Flyer
g. Northwest WorldPerks
h. TWA Aviators
i. United Mileage Plus
j. US Airways Dividend Miles
k. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#11.Please choose the most important factor of Frequent Flyer Programs
a. Easy to earn mile
b. Variety of awards
c. No expiration dates
d. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#12.Please choose the ways below that you use to earn miles.
(Min response: 1 / Max response: 3)
a. Airlines
b. Phone & Internet
c. Credit and Debit Cards
d. Dining
e. Financial Services
f. Hotels
g. Rental Cars
h. Retail and Gifts
i. Vacations & Cruises
j. Purchase/Transfer miles
k. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#13.Have you ever used an airline or their partners'services because of
bonus mile offers?
a. Yes
b. No

Your answer____________________________________

#14.How often have you redeemed airline mileage points?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
e. 5
f. more than 6
g. Never

Your answer____________________________________

#15.How do you usually redeem your accumulated miles?
(Min response: 1 / Max response: 3)
a. Free airline tickets (Standard Awards)
b. Upgrade (Upgrade Awards)
c. Discounted airline tickets(Saver Awards)
d. Rental Cars
e. Hotels
f. Vacation & Cruises
g. Other

Your answer____________________________________

#16.What is your opinion of Airline Frequent Flyer Programs?
a. Worthwhile
b. Complicated
c. Difficult to redeem points
d. Not interested : Reason>>

Your answer____________________________________

#17.Are you currently using any other programs to earn points or coupons
besides Frequent Flyer programs?
a. Yes
b. No

Your answer____________________________________

#18.Please list the point programs other than Frequent Flyer Programs that
you belong to: (such as credit card or telephone)


Your answer____________________________________


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Bear in mind that the data you collect from this forum has the potential to be skewed (if you are looking for a random sample). The term "Frequent" flier does not do justice to a good number of people who post on these boards. Just my 2 cents.

I thought a Baby Boomer was someone in the 40-60 range. (e.g., someone born in roughly right after WWII through about the early-60's)

I don't think of 35-year-olds as Baby Boomers.

I also think there should be a Baby Bust generation in there, covering today's thirty-somethings. Today's 35-year-olds aren't "grungy" enough to be X'ers. Except for the small minority that got into British punk before Seattle became cool. I'm good with them being honorary considered X'ers.

So the mainstream Gen-X is the kids born in the early-to-late-70s, leaving Y for everybody after that: up through today's college kids. (Do they have their own title yet?)

Why am I rambling about this? Because these surveys show up every few weeks in Milesbuzz and I'm growing weary of them.

Could you post your survey findings on this board to share with us after you compile your data?

This is not appropriate fodder for "MilesBuzz", me sez. I'm moving it to Omni, as I can not think of a more focused home for it.

Well, what can I say.

It is a survey, and God knows that we have a ton of those around here, but about travel?

We do space travel, inter-dimensional travel, and many more, but not frequent flier programs and regular travel.

Let's move it to TravelBuzz!

The 87th Frequent-Flier Survey to be posted here since January is hardly Buzz worthy, is it?