The airlines don’t want to give away flights for ‘free’ to frequent flyers anymore, they want to sell however many millions of points they care to mint out of thin air to third parties. What is left to look forward to? asks Ben Sandilands.
Frequent flyers
Angry Flyers Lounge: Loyalty schemes that disappoint
A frustrated Qantas passenger and frequent flyer unleashes his fury in the Angry Flyers Lounge. Time to remember: frequent flyer programs are nothing to do with customer loyalty and everything to do with making cash.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Disaster looming at Immigration Dept?
“Disaster is just around the corner” at the Department of Immigration, says a tipster. Plus: cutbacks could be coming for frequent flyers, and will Rees front up over Sydney’s Environmental Impact Assessment?
Tips and rumours
At a seminar at DFAT HQ yesterday morning. Coffee break included Iced VoVos. Haven’t seen them in years! Obviously the endorsement of a Prime-Minister-in-waiting carries a lot of weight … You mention Ian Macfarlane potentially retiring, and there is some discussion in his seat of Groom at the moment. In yesterday’s local Chronicle a letter […]
