DEVALUED: Avios flights on American Airlines, Alaska and LATAM get pricier

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• Gael says:

  15 Jul15 July 18:43

  When is the effective date for this? We have an AA internal US booking for next March. Will the total of Avios used be adjusted or will we pay as booked. ATM I cannot access the booking which doesn’t bode well

  • Rob says:

    15 Jul15 July 19:41

    If you’re booked, you’re fine.

• darren smith says:

  15 Jul15 July 19:08

  if we book via tfr to qatar site, will that recognise OW status for AA so that we still get seat selection / luggage allowance and so on as we would have in the past by booking AA via the BA site ?

  • Rob says:

    15 Jul15 July 19:40

    You’d need to change the FF number in the booking after it had been made to swap in a BA number for the QR number.

• Bernard says:

  15 Jul15 July 19:36

  More to come yet.
  Avios is going to be gutted.
  This is the price of the ‘genius’ of all the massive credit card give aways.
  IAGL seems to be run by a team that have forgotten the L in their division. Classic short-termism.
  Adam Daniel’s is the new Alex Cruz – generating short term profits but short sighted enough he’s unaware of the irrecoverable damage done long-term.

  • Danny says:

    15 Jul15 July 23:57

    Sounds about right.

    What I can’t understand is why the Gatwick lounge sometimes has more staff than customers, yet the ones at Heathrow are chronically understaffed. Ripe for an “enhancement”.

  • QFFlyer says:

    16 Jul16 July 01:39

    Devaluations happen unfortunately. Yeah the UK’s seen some decent credit card bonuses finally, in recent years, but don’t forget other countries (US, Australia) have markets which pump out more frequent flyer miles than real currency, especially ones which are burnable on BA etc., and have had for years, so I don’t think a few 100k SUBs in the UK is the end of the world. Levelling the playing field a bit more maybe.

    • Bernard says:

      16 Jul16 July 09:16

      I’m not sure Australia is that relevant to BA avios. Relatively small population and far away. The US credit card avios gout is a problem of iAGL’s own making.
      Like QE, if you create avios out of thin air, then inflation/devaluation follows.
      With this still going on, there’s far more devaluation to come.

      • QFFlyer says:

        16 Jul16 July 10:54

        Fair, but there’s a decent enough number of people collecting Avios because of the points differential on mid-range flights (such as Trans-Tasman or Transcontinental) which cost about half the Avios they do QFF points.

        But my point was that our nationwide dedication to frequent flyer programs means we have the ability to book the same (give or take) BA flights that those from the US (or anywhere else with easy access to Oneworld points) do – BA15/16 are probably the ones of most significance, so distance and much lower population does have less of a direct impact.

        Also, unusually, with QR both our main airlines, QF and VA, can book their reward seats (albeit QF are somewhat hobbled because of the dispute over QF lobbying the Gov’t to restrict landing slots into Australia to QR). Then QF covers EK and VA also EY, which covers the ME3 entirely. I’m going off topic now, but my original point, being that other countries have had huge SUBs which can be burned on BA for years, this means the UK finally getting a few is at least levelling the playing field a bit.

        • Bernard says:

          16 Jul16 July 12:55

          I’m not sure what your point is.

          The point here is if you spray avios like confetti to manufacture IAGL ‘profits’ then there’s a blowback.

          And that is a lot more devaluation- just like we’ve seen in the in USA.

          And then there’s the BA tier point issue – a whole other topic.

        • QFFlyer says:

          19 Jul19 July 14:51

          My point was, essentially, that they’ve been doing it for years already and a few large SUBs in the UK on top isn’t the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

          TPs fair enough, completely different.

• bobby says:

  16 Jul16 July 18:26

  Isn’t this just another form of inflation? Prices are going up everywhere

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