Travel providers such as hotels and airlines continually adjust their loyalty programs, and they tend to move toward
requiring more points than in the past, not fewer.
Overall, the changes are a bit of a mixed bag, with some redemptions
requiring more points, while others will require less.
These look mainly like negative changes, with most oh hotels now
requiring more points per night.
Starwood and Marriott are diluting their programs, but some of the most dramatic changes are in the Hilton HHonors program, which will not only
require more points for most stays but will upgrade a bunch of properties to higher, more expensive categories.
You can either pay for the entire cost of the ticket (s) with your points, or you'll be charged the difference to your card if the airline ticket
requires more points than you have available.
More expensive and higher demand Carlson properties will
require more points for each nights stay.
To hold rates for longer periods of time, it typically
requires more points or higher interest rates.
Hilton ranks its hotels, and hotels in higher categories
require more points for a free stay.
For instance, it may be worth it to stay more nights at a hotel of lesser quality than to cut your trip short because a fancier hotel
requires more points.
Some properties provide several options for Points & Cash; some require more cash while others
require more points.
Avios redemptions are calculated per segment, so each connection or transfer
requires more points, even though they can often be booked like one award.
Generally, fancy hotels
require more points for free nights, so you can stretch your points further by staying at less ritzy properties.
This means devaluing the currency to
require more points per award night if the cost of the hotels we use them for goes up or if there are too many points in circulation.
(However, Business Select and Anytime fares not only tend to be more expensive but also
require more points per dollar.)
Although Hilton did not directly raise the prices for members, such as those using credit cards like the Hilton HHonors Platinum Credit Card or the Hilton HHonors Visa Credit Card, it does
require more points for a stay in any of the hotels that moved up in category.
«In fact, they're more likely to lose value as companies
require more points or miles for the same perks.
In this case, you can choose to pay cash for the nights that
require more points, and pay with points for the nights that are available at the PointSavers rate.
IHG rewards nights start at 5,000 points with the IHG PointBreaks program, and they recently started offering higher category properties for 10,000 points and 15,000 points per night that usually
require more points when they're not included in the PointBreaks portfolio.
More expensive and higher demand Carlson properties will
require more points for each nights stay.
For every one point from SPG, you get three points for Marriott because Marriott stays
require more points.
(Clarification: The «free night» is based on picking a property from the 8,000 - point reward level in the program; most
require more points than that.)
Not exact matches
For instance, instead of a bullet
point reading «10 + years experience
required,» consider something along the lines of «Team player with strong leadership skills and 10 or
more years of demonstrated ability to manage effectively.»
Patient interaction varies from the simply following a
point around a circle on the screen to
more complex scenarios that
require the patient to make a cognitive decision — should the image popping onto the screen be saved (the world) or destroyed (an alien).
And that
requires the boss to be
more proactive than just giving recruits quick run - downs on expectations and the company culture, then
pointing them to a manual.
For instance, if the capital equipment
required is capable of handling the needs of 10,000 customers at an average sale of $ 10 each, that would be $ 100,000 in sales, at which
point additional capital will be
required in order to purchase
more equipment should the company grow beyond this
point.
The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that
require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much
more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation
points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much
more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.
One - way flights are often
more expensive on a per - mile basis than round - trip, but they don't
require extra
points.
There is no firm premiere date yet, but the showrunners said it will «probably be a little later» because filming for the upcoming season will
require more «grim,» cold weather, After all, the show's longtime tagline has been «Winter is coming» and that long - promised colder weather had to show up onscreen at some
point.
Case in
point: the estimates indicate that hospitals will purchase 10 to 20 percent
more portable equipment than they actually
require for operational needs.
The problem at that
point is that once the
required minimum distribution starts, they end up being forced to take
more money than what they necessarily need at that
point, and they get thrust into a higher tax rate,» explain Plessl and Houser.
Schools receive
points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 %
required work experience (
more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).
«I think all new technologies have an element of being a little bit scary, and I think it's easier to see the downsides than the upsides because the upsides
require a lot
more imagination, but in every
point in the past, new technology has had many
more upsides than downsides,» he said.
If you can get your business to the
point where it doesn't
require your constant involvement, it will be far
more attractive to buyers, whose involvement can also be minimal should they choose to acquire your business.
While it's hard to quantify the dollar amount transacted with mobile wallets, Parks Associates estimates that proximity payment transactions — which
require users to tap their phone at a
point - of - sale terminal — generated
more than $ 30 billion in the U.S. in 2016, a figure that's expected to top $ 300 billion by 2022.
Independent research firm Clearview Energy Partners of Washington D.C. noted in a comment late on Wednesday that Judge Boasberg's order
pointed to «omissions» in the Corps» analysis, which the Corps may be able to address quickly, rather than larger errors that might
require more study.
Yeah, Sam's
point about this
requiring more time and effort is probably the main deterrent here.
«For those unfamiliar with it,» DPR Managing Director Tim Bell writes, «Article 27
requires companies that are not established in the EU but that monitor or process the personal data of people within the EU to appoint an EU - based representative to act as their Europe - facing
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Customer experience professionals
require a lot
more detail at a micro level in order to understand the pain
points and to, ultimately, fix them.
The Digital Age will undoubtedly be introducing new potential types of touch
points for customers and buyers which will
require companies today to be much
more attentive to the dynamic enablers of customer experiences.
The Chase Sapphire Reserve ® will deliver
more points, but
requires a serious investment due to the annual fee.
And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into
more than a few percentage
points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were
required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.
It's just a shame that we haven't come to the
point in society where it should be
required that those who make decisions must meet certain,
more highly regulated, fool proof, corruption resistant criteria proving their intellect and open mindedness as well as weeding out individuals with preconceived notions, racist, sexist or religiously or other discriminative views (even if they themselves don't believe they are discriminative in their beliefs... this happens
more than many people realize) and overall ignorant minds.
The
point is that almost all of us, unless we are exceptionally gifted or precocious,
require more than bureaucratic exhortation or the abstract knowledge that the study of the humanities is important.
This last
point, in particular,
requires far
more attention than it has generally received.
This
point of view fully respects the progressive experimental concentration of human thought in a
more and
more lively awareness of its unifying role; but in place of the undefined
point of convergence
required as term for this evolution it is the clearly defined personal reality of the incarnate Word that is made manifest to us and established for us as our objective, that Word «in whom all things subsist.»
crowd starts cheering, Jesus would not side with them either,
pointing out that
requiring businesses to pay their workers
more only puts
more workers out of work.
(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees
points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would
require the equivalent of two
more planet Earths.»
Han Wenzao
pointed out that such a stance
requires a broader and
more social theology of salvation than the church espoused prior to the 1949 liberation.
I.E. the big bang theory which would
require belief in the fact that some kinds of Matter ALWAYS existed and that at some
point it all exploded and created a universe, a belief i might add, that in my view takes
more faith to believe in than most modern religions.
The original
point of the parable was like that of the parable of the faithful and unfaithful servants (Lk 12:48); «Every one to whom much is given, of him will much be
required; and of him to whom men commit much they will demand the
more.»