@ Dan — There's no doubt that there's a trend whereby American is releasing
a LOT less award availability on their own metal.
Not exact matches
When the stock price plummets because your company underperforms, and you subsequently feel you have to grant a
lot more to remain competitive, and then your stock price recovers, your CEO will end up with a
lot more
award value than the CEO of a competitor whose firm's stock price dropped much
less, before also recovering.
The dress that the Downton Abbey star wears with Gianvito Rossi heels and Kwiat jewels to an Entertainment Weekly party before the SAG
Awards has a whole
lot more color and whole
lot less side cleavage than the dress she ends up wearing Sunday.
The evening, long marketed as the looser,
less inhibited answer to the stodgy Oscars, actually felt a
lot like the Academy
Awards with plenty of effusive and heartfelt acceptance speeches, with particular note being paid to the front - row presence of Oprah Winfrey, the recipient of the HFPA's Cecil B. DeMille honor.
Sometimes buying an
award flight through a partner can cost a
lot less than getting it directly through the airline's frequent flyer program.
Increased the cost of premium
awards on partner airlines by significant margins (some
awards increased in price by over 50 %) making them a
lot less attractive than in the past.
While a
lot of the attention has been focused on the
awards that are going to be costing a
lot more from Tuesday onwards, not a
lot of time or blog space appears to have been given to the
awards that will actually cost
less.
If you pay for Business or First Class flights then you can still rack up a
lot of miles from flying but those of us flying at the back are seeing a far lower rate of return than ever before — Delta and United (and soon American) base the number of miles they
award travelers on the cost of the ticket purchased (
less taxes) so the cheaper ticket you by the fewer miles you'll earn.
AAdvantage miles are a
lot less valuable nowadays and while using them economically (booking SAAver
awards) continues to be as hard as it is I can't see too many reasons to convert Hyatt points to AAdvantage.
The only positive change is for those who plan to redeem your points for
award nights in India, where a
lot of hotels have dropped to lower categories, which means you will need
less points for
award nights.
Since Doug Parker took the helm, he's done a
lot to make AAdvantage miles
less valuable by taking what used to be decent American Airlines
award availability and chucking that out the window.
There are fewer marketing opportunities and a
lot less money available for indies to get their name out there — something like the IGF
awards can really help with that.
I've found the Energy Star labels to be more or
less useless because: 1) they are
awarded by screen size class, so a large screen set with an Energy Star label uses a
lot more power than a smaller screen set with the label.
A life insurance is a
lot less likely to
award them cheap term life insurance when compared to a person whose day job is data entry for a Fortune 500 company.
If the combined income of the couple is
less than $ 75,000, as of 2012 state law, the court will usually
award temporary maintenance if one spouse earns a
lot more than the other spouse.