V-Flyer

Hi watching Fox News usa at the moment and there's some news about Delta having just announced its going to "reconfigure its Frequent Flyer Programme".

Sounds like they are going down the same road as the BA Avios scheme

Sorry can't find a link but expect someone will post it for viewing.

This?

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/ ... arts-gone/

If so no devaluation - at least not yet. Give it time though: BA & EK have made the leap this year so others are sure to follow.

gumshoe wrote:This?

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/ ... arts-gone/

If so no devaluation - at least not yet. Give it time though: BA & EK have made the leap this year so others are sure to follow.

Looks like the approach that Hilton adopted with HHonors a few years ago...

I think FT has a rather large topic on this. Apparently United always copy what other airlines too so they have "devlaued" theirs too. Mucho debate on FT about that too.

Silver Fox wrote:I think FT has a rather large topic on this. Apparently United always copy what other airlines too so they have "devlaued" theirs too. Mucho debate on FT about that too.

Ah, the race to the bottom. How so twenty first century.

I can't find anything apart from they have removed the point spending table so you could see how much a flight would cost without looking the flight up?

Delta made changes to their FF program to earn points on $'s spent on the 1st Jan 2015, but wasn't this announced a year ago? And in 2013 they announced that, for 2014, they had changed to way you earn status, again focusing on $'s spent.

Whats the 'new' news?

Nothing new so far - they were the first to do this. United followed. BA half followed, focusing on Avios primarily, while leaving the status/TP structure mostly untouched, save a cut to TPs earned on cheap Y flights, since it biases to premium cabin spenders anyway.

They've indeed removed award charts and they may yet do more, but it would be hard to find a more awful FFP in the US unless you're with JetBlue or something. This is the price of the new structure of legacy airlines in the US. They don't need FFPs much anymore.

Hamster wrote:I can't find anything apart from they have removed the point spending table so you could see how much a flight would cost without looking the

Presumably the suspicion is that the cost in points can then be readily flexed by date and time?