Recap: Hilton Honors Award Category Changes, British Airways Changes & More

Hilton Honors Award Category Changes April 2017 – March 2018 + New Properties by LoyaltyLobby. Can’t imagine how long this took to put together, we are working on an automated solution to shame Hilton whenever a property increases in price as well. These types of posts are insanely important in trying to keep loyalty programs honest, especially Hilton & Delta. Hilton claimed they wanted to move this system so they could be flexible in pricing, leading to both increases and decreases in pricing for loyalty members. Lies lies lies. Hilton wanted to move to this system to increase award prices without any oversight.
DEAL DEAD – The time when Safeway was giving out gas points for VGC by Miles Per Day. Always worth tryingnew things,

Program devaluation – Wyndham Rewards GoFast copay now pegged to room rate by Loyalty Traveler. Points & cash rates used to be great at some Wyndham properties/room type, I guess that’s mostly gone now :(.
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Cruz speaks about the upcoming changes to Avios and BAEC by Head For Points. This is basically about British Airways moving to a dynamic pricing and earning system. From my reading it seems they might move towards a more fixed value system like Southwest, rather than a “let’s hide all relevant information and keep consumers in the dark” system like Delta and Hilton.