† Velocity Frequent Flyer awarded Best Redemption Ability for Middle East & Asia / Oceania category in 2013 Freddie Awards, and ranked highest of all Asia Pacific region programs in Ideaworks Company's 2013 SwitchFly Reward
Seat Availability survey.
May 2013: Virgin Australia has taken second place in the fourth annual Switchfly Reward
Seat Availability Survey global survey.
The Switchfly Reward
Seat Availability Survey is based upon 6,680 booking queries made by the IdeaWorks Company at the websites of 23 frequent flier programs during March 2012.
Reward availability on airlines continues upward with 2012 results 5 points higher than 2010, according to the 3rd annual Switchfly Reward
Seat Availability Survey, released recently by IdeaWorks.
(1) According to May 2015 Switchfly Reward
Seat Availability Survey.
Not exact matches
For the
survey out Thursday, Switchfly broke down the
availability of saver
seats — which are
seats that can be purchased through rewards programs — on 25 major International airlines.
Rankings for frequent flier programs: 2
surveys, similar results — Ratings are beginning to take into consideration one of the most important factors to many fliers: reward
seat availability.
All three airlines delivered results above last year's
survey, but Delta Airlines» award
seat availability has dropped.
That's the overriding conclusion from the 2015 IdeaWorks / Switchfly
survey of reward
seat availability on 25 airlines worldwide.
IdeaWorks» recently released 6th annual
survey of award
availability revealed that Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways offered abundant award
seats compared to rivals.
Conducted by IdeaWorksCompany, the
survey ranks airlines by
availability of reward
seats to frequent flyers.
IdeaWorks» fourth annual
survey of airline award
seat availability ranked Delta dead last.
What was accurate and fair about the
survey was that it ranks Delta much higher for close - in
availability as award
seats are often released more freely within two weeks of departure.