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No wonder Sean got annoyed.

As long as you're not naive enough to expect that nothing else would be changed, fine by me. Better the devil you know, in my opinion. It is not realistic to expect that someone should be able to fly multiple times in business class for "free" just for opening a credit card.

So what makes you think that pricing rationale breaks down at the lower end? There's no reason to view "Awards" as anything other than part of an overall pricing strategy. That should be immediately obvious from the way they recently changed pricing for Y awards only. They knew the pricing...

The "limited" or "availability" disclaimer really has nothing to do with it. Just like they don't choose to make every single seat available as a Red e-deal. From their current sale: Qantas international flights from Sydney Fares are in Australian dollars and include taxes, fees and carrier...

OK, thanks, I understand your point, but I don't agree. You say it's an empty seat, I say it's just another way for Qantas to make money. The "empty" thing isn't written in stone anywhere, it's quite possible that the pricing of awards is just part of the whole spectrum of pricing and yield...

You make it sound way too binary. Are you saying that Qantas is failing to sell those empty seats even as award tickets because those awards are too expensive?

The first paragraph is basically just a straw man, as is the last. And is pretty much contradicted by the middle one. Qantas *are* selling awards in a way that makes them money. Which is presumably why the consumers are complaining. They can even make a WP feel special by giving them the right...

It's a really facile argument. There is a points component and a cash component to any award offered by pretty much any airline. The value of the cash is known to all. The value of the points is arbitrary. QFF already sell as many awards as they want to at the combined price of the two...

re: Avianca "Lifemiles" - Questions and Discussion I also like the way the officers etc. never seem surprised to suddenly have to deal with a whole lot of people arriving from overseas. SYD and MEL can be a bit like Groundhog Day at times. Or Pulp Fiction. ("English, mutha****a, do you speak...

To be fair, he might have just been sheepish about what he had to offer you.

LOL. At least you have your health.

Harsh when he or she is personally affected. And it's not as though they're not aware at this juncture.

Not worth it in my opinion. Incidentally, I *get* that people can't always write English well, but there also seems to be some kind of scam-aesthetic to font choice and layout now... are peasant morons more likely to respond to that kind of page vibe?

Really not sure how Singapore-specific this advice is.

And for the contrarian take: you read these things enough, you become tired of the attempts to be the next Oliver Beale. It's so last decade.

"Incredible" means hard to believe, so that doesn't work for me vis-a-vis VA call centers... But while the circumstances and timing were unfortunate for you personally, this should not be made out to be a big deal.

Really positive feedback *after the flight* is the best thing you can possibly do. Go out of your way to give it if you're happy. The "gift" thing would be awkward for many of the airlines I fly, and it also seems insincere if you've bought it before you even know if they've "served" you well...

re: Avianca "Lifemiles" - Questions and Discussion So FRA F was fun enough, but I am perhaps not the target market (don't smoke cigars, not especially interested in cars). I actually did a water flight (cough flirting with the dude on water duty), and basically tasted 15 or so types of water...

LOL. Exactly. - Just go over there and earn a safe 4%. - Where? - Ummmmmmm.....

I completely agree with you. Thank you for demonstrating my point. There is a very clear "right" side to this argument to all but the most unreasonable.