American Bear Posted January 29, 2014 #101 Share Posted January 29, 2014 We feel its simple corporate economics! As more people earn higher levels in the loyalty club, the benefits are changed to give you less, and make it harder to reach the next level! It was only a few years ago that you got 2x pts. on 12 day or longer cruises, not anymore! But this comes back to bite the corporate dummies in the butt cause the longer cruises such as the trans Atlantic repositionings are harder to sell now cause they took away a selling point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfaeric Posted January 29, 2014 #102 Share Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) We feel its simple corporate economics!As more people earn higher levels in the loyalty club, the benefits are changed to give you less, and make it harder to reach the next level! It was only a few years ago that you got 2x pts. on 12 day or longer cruises, not anymore! But this comes back to bite the corporate dummies in the butt cause the longer cruises such as the trans Atlantic repositionings are harder to sell now cause they took away a selling point! But that was when you would be getting one point per cruise, so it made sense to give a longer cruise 2 points. Especially when you got one point for a 3 night or a 7 night cruise. With the change to night based points, the delta for 12 nights and up is more than a lot of other cruises- instead of getting twice as many points as a 3 night (2 vs. 1) you now get 4x as many points (12 vs. 3). Seems like a pretty good deal. Since a lot of TA's are longer than 15 nights, the new system is even better compared to a 7 night the old way- instead of just getting the twice as much (2 vs. 1), you now get 15 to 7- just over double. The math for the C&A benefits to a TA seems pretty solid. If that's why people take TAs. The real hard selling point to a TA is the flight travel to or from Europe- that's what holds us up. Not the points, for sure. edit- just looked up the schedule- of the trans atlatics that are currently scheduled, not including the Quantum, there are 19 sailings, of those, 6 are 12 or 13 nights. The remaining 13 are 14 nights or longer. *note- of those is the non regular TA of the Oasis- two of the 13 night trips* So, on average, a TA would come out ahead in the current points vs the old system (14.05 points vs 7 or 2 vs 1, not including the Oasis, it's 14.17 points on average). Edited January 29, 2014 by alfaeric data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare John&LaLa Posted January 29, 2014 #103 Share Posted January 29, 2014 We feel its simple corporate economics!As more people earn higher levels in the loyalty club, the benefits are changed to give you less, and make it harder to reach the next level! It was only a few years ago that you got 2x pts. on 12 day or longer cruises, not anymore! But this comes back to bite the corporate dummies in the butt cause the longer cruises such as the trans Atlantic repositionings are harder to sell now cause they took away a selling point! Bogus logic, if the cruise is over 8 new system is better and if over 14 new system is better. 12 day trans-atlantics are not the norm anyway. the old point sytem only benefitted cruises less than 7 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancinman66 Posted January 30, 2014 #104 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Ok c and a have some issues But all in all they treat us better than the others Have done enough to appreciate the difference Long and short is that any real recognition of our loyalty should be respected and thanked No matter how small Business states how they deal with us I am thankful that in rccl I do mean something even if there are issues Enjoy the cruise Greg. :) Sent from my iPhone using Forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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