Reply To: Will there be a Black Friday sale?

[FreqTraveler1210]

AL wrote:

Which huge success, @FreqTraveler1210? I’m their target market and strongly associate with the brand, and even I’m effed off with the recent crap.

I’m their target market and have been gold for years as I have historically only elected to fly with them across the Atlantic, however to clarify I was being sarcastic/facetious with my comment.

I was inferring that they might be thinking that this is a massive win for them so they might not need to offer any deals this thanksgiving.

I typically save all my work related points and then use them to take my wife on last minute trips when I get some downtime which I only know a couple of weeks out typically. Under the old scheme I could check out the reward seat tracker and book something last minute for a decent amount of points, now looking at Christmas it’ll be 242k points for economy or just under 1m points for upper class. So whilst I have historically been very lucky to get upper class last minute a few days before flying, this time I’ll be getting economy for the same points.

Which means I’m now looking at alternative airlines to just do a cash ticket purchase and even looking at the BA AMEX. I don’t even have the Virgin CC card as I accrue points through my work Amex to cover 2-3 personal trips a year, but now considering a switch.