Wednesday, 18 August 2010

The Long Road to Miles and More: German press annouces possible date, more questions than answers

Globalflight reports that

"bmi will terminate its Frequent Flyer Program Diamond Club towards June 2011 and merge it into the program of its new owner Lufthansa, Miles & More."

Well we know about that BMI is on the verge of terminating it thanks to the investor speech Herr Prock-Schauer gave a few weeks ago.

There is some analysis on the cost of an EU redemption - however and perhaps more importantly, there is no reported source to this story.

This has stirred some debate in the running thread on Flyertalk with more questions being answered - an alas, none being answered.

Even the BMI Facebook thread has gone silent on the matter

So what should you do?  My advice remains constant:
  • Burn your miles now
  • Only buy miles if you need them.
  • If you have family members with small pots of miles, merge them into family accounts
  • If you're qualifying for Star Alliance Gold or Silver, you need get it done and dusted for early next year latest.
More on this continuing mess as it breaks.


Source: http://www.globalflight.net/index.php?id=2&lang=e

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