Unless
load factors drop back down, and I don't think that is likely in the near future, I think that this is an inevitable change to FF programs for them to even be feasible, without turning into a giant pyramid scheme where you can earn miles but not redeem them... which some would argue is already the case today.
Passenger
load factor dropped 1.5 percent, from 73.1 percent in 2009 to 71.7 in 2010, while the airline's On Time Performance was 80.2 percent.
Not exact matches
UBS estimates that the
load factor of lignite (brown coal) plants in Germany
drops from 72 % to 59 %, while the
load factor of hard coal plants
drops from 47 % to 31 % by 2020.
If all of that is built, the average
load factor of coal - based plants is likely to
drop further to about 50 %.
Not only do visitors
drop off with slow page -
load times, but Google and other search engines consider speed a
factor in ranking your website in search results.