Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Devaluation

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Devaluation

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer program has announced that they will be amending their award chart and removing some key benefits. Worse, they’ve essentially given KrisFlyer members only three weeks to respond and plan under the old award chart. While this Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Devaluation is not the end of the world, it is unfortunate. BackgroundSingapore Airlines KrisFlyer program is one…

American’s AAdvantage Program Changes – June 2016

American Airlines is making changes to their AAdvantage Program, and they are not pretty. This is of course, a follow-up devaluation to the one announced November, 2015. There are a bunch of changes – here’s the high points, plus my own analysis. AAdvantage Redeemable Mileage (RDM) Earning Rate Goes Revenue Based Not a huge surprise here.…

Boarding the Emirates A380 via Door 1UL.

Is Alaska the first in a new string of devaluations?

In the aftermath of the un-announced Alaska Airlines’ Emirates devaluation, Gary Leff posted: Your miles aren’t safe: Devaluations create the need for even more devaluations. While I don’t believe he’s wrong in his assertion normally, I will lay out an argument of why I don’t believe his assertion to be true in this case. BackgroundIn the…