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United Will Move To A Revenue-Based Frequent Flyer Program in 2015
United will be moving to a revenue-based frequent flyer program starting in March 2015, copying Delta's announcement earlier this year. Miles will be earned based on the cost of the flight rather than the distance of the flight. (thepointsguy.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Years ago I had saved 183,000 miles toward a trip for when I retired, but the fine print got me and I missed flying on United during one year. They took those miles and dumped them. I have only flown United once in the last 17 years as a result of their kindness, during that time I flew 2.7 million miles on American.
IN MY OPINION, A RIPOFF!!
I remember an e-mail from continental saying they were canceling the free meal so you could buy a healthy meal from them. Then the merger with united stating how the ff program would be better. I guess I missed the fine print ( better for them). Miles expire, more miles needed per trip, less seats available, extra fee to use the miles, more miles needed for alliance flights. And now the new earned based cost per flight. Wow thank you United, you are so good with you passengers. Remember there are only a certain amount of flyers, you keep treating them so well, you will end up like Eastern, pan am, twa and all of the many airlines that have left us. What's next?
So who is left with a decent Ff program. Is it now American.?
This would have really helped me out for the last couple years. I often was flying short flights to expensive places (Lincoln, NE) where a ticket to a small airport like Lincoln or Pasco, WA would cost more than a flight to Paris.
This is a great move by United. Now I don't feel so resentful that I was getting 1,500 miles on a $900 ticket that could have under different circumstances gotten me 6,000 miles. Now admittedly I also made out like a bandit on a first class United/Copa flight to Chile last year (netting I think 30,000 miles total on a 2,000 ticket) but those sorts of sweet deals are the rarity.
I also had to attend two funerals at the last second last year and each ticket was in excess of $1,000 and only got a fraction of the miles a $1,200 SEA -> SYD would have gotten me for the same price.
Clearly this though is to attract first class Pacific flyers. First class tickets to China or Japan are 8x the price of economy but only give you 2x the award miles. Their most valuable (overpriced) customers were probably rightfully resentful.
This is a great move by United. Now I don't feel so resentful that I was getting 1,500 miles on a $900 ticket that could have under different circumstances gotten me 6,000 miles. Now admittedly I also made out like a bandit on a first class United/Copa flight to Chile last year (netting I think 30,000 miles total on a 2,000 ticket) but those sorts of sweet deals are the rarity.
I also had to attend two funerals at the last second last year and each ticket was in excess of $1,000 and only got a fraction of the miles a $1,200 SEA -> SYD would have gotten me for the same price.
Clearly this though is to attract first class Pacific flyers. First class tickets to China or Japan are 8x the price of economy but only give you 2x the award miles. Their most valuable (overpriced) customers were probably rightfully resentful.
This represents about a 30% reduction in award miles for my typical travel