Miles+Bonus has changed the number of miles that you earn on both Aegean and Olympic flights for tickets issued on or after June 16, 2020.
Aegean claims that it wants to make flying more “rewarding” by cutting the number of miles you earn by up to 50%.
You can access Aegean’s page for the change here.
Here are the earnings tables:
Domestic
International
Conclusion
I find it very unfortunate that Aegean has not sent out any communication about these changes to its Miles+Bonus members who are mostly negatively affected by these changes.
The number of miles that you earn on domestic flights is abysmal to begin with. Why bother further disincentivizing people to use Aegean over their competitors?
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Most people using Aegean’s program are flying premium fares on Star Alliance partners. I don’t think flying A3 itself is the reason most people use the program as the benefits aren’t really great, but their earning rates for certain premium fares on partners is really attractive. Unless of course they are cutting *A earnings too, which isn’t really addressed there.
They did the same thing last year when they devalued awards without notice. I understand why people use this loyalty program but they clearly don’t have a problem sticking it to their members
Funny you should claim the lack of communicating the changes today, when, today (!) Aegean did actually send an email regarding these changes to miles&bonus members.
Were they too late to do so? Sure. But “mostly negatively affected” ist just flat-out incorrect. In fact, most of their existing fares saw a raise in miles earnings!! It was just the ridiculously cheap P, T and U (and E, international) fares in “go light” that got a (if you ask me well deserved and long pending) decrease, which is 33% on international routes and the 50% on domestic is actually “only” 100 miles…
Get all the facts next time…