As reported by Musings of the Global Traveller, bmi's Diamond Club program will be merging into Lufthansa Miles & More by mid-2011 at the latest. For those of you not familiar with bmi, they're a great airline to credit miles to, even if you never fly them. They offer double miles (both redeemable and elite…
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Aside from the generous redemption table, what I'm going to miss most is the relationship with Qatar. Diamond club offered an amazing number of miles for flights in Qatar's (fantastic and often amazingly cheap) business class. The only other Star Alliance program I can find with such a comprehensive relationship with Qatar is ANA, but the award and redemption rates are meagre.
Miles & More has a limited arrangement (I think only on flights between Doha and Germany), perhaps it'll be expanded in light of this development.
Should had come to http://www.ghettoife.com/2010/06/analysis-diamond-club-upcoming-changes.html, and it's confirmed in a very long thread on http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bmi-diamond-club/1100408-prock-schauer-roadmap-integration-diamond-club-m-m-agreed.html
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It's sad, but hey. Time to burn those miles, and have a party with them.
Qualification will be the interesting part and how they migrate the BD*S/*G's over to FTL and SEN respectively.
Lets put it like this: I'm keeping earning on BMI for the remainder of the year, but will be looking for a new home for my miles the moment I retain Gold...
Ben,
Where is it written that the 50% off Companion Award is limited to once per year? From lufthansa.com, it appears to be once per award ticket:
"A maximum of one Companion Award may be booked per HON Circle or Senator award ticket as long as the cardholder has sufficient accumulated miles."
Somehow I suspect you are correct (you usually are), but I hope you aren't this time!
@ Ben -- Awesome! As a huge fun of LH and LX first, I am pretty excited about the prospect of becoming a SEN and using those miles for the Companion Awards.