Is the traditional airline
loyalty reward chart — showing fixed mileage costs for various award trips — becoming a thing of the past?
Not exact matches
In 2017, the Hilton Honors
loyalty program was reconfigured; it no longer uses award
charts like other major hotel
loyalty programs such as World of Hyatt and Marriott
Rewards.
Using the
rewards charts and rules of a particular airline's
loyalty program, you can use your points to book flights on any of the partners within that airline's alliance.
Not only do you have to deal with blackout dates, seating limitations and complicated
rewards charts, but
loyalty programs (especially airline programs) often come with a dense list of guidelines that limit how you can use your
rewards.
Once you transfer your Ultimate
Rewards points to an outside
loyalty program, you are subject to the rules, fees and price
charts of that program.
IAG's two biggest airlines (Iberia and BA) both have their own separate
loyalty programs but both use Avios as their currency and both have very similar
rewards charts so we've been expecting more of the same from Aer Lingus....