We recently saw the Virgin Atlantic Flying Club program adopt dynamic award pricing. While I was worried about this at first, the execution so far has been great, and has opened up some amazing sweet spot redemptions.
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If they are going to require a visa, not going there and not even passing through!
I'll NEVER fly again into London........the taxes and fees are a deal breaker.........
I am afraid this article's half-life may be really low.
Yeah, Flying Club has loaded some mightily attractive saver awards, but I expect these to get considerably sparser.
We've seen the playbook dozens of times. Loyalty program devalues and then makes it appear the changes are not all that bad to soften the blow.
Give it a year at the most and saver awards through Flying Club will be scarcer. And pricing anomalies wrt FB will have disappeared for the most part.
In the first 2 examples (JFK to LHR on different dates) it doesn't seem logical that the tax almost doubles. The amount obviously includes a fuel surcharge but this should be constant on a particular route, or not?
Connecting in London to a non-UK destination (or INV) would not incur the government's taxes.
The big question is whether there is partner award availability. How many airlines have we seen jack around with it?