...A company defines program conditions that are simple to be met – generally, these are the programs where clients can gain kind of bonuses and points. And when they do so, a company doesn’t keep its promises. As a result, clients eagerly gain points but don’t get the remuneration, or if they do, they get only a part of it or something that has never been proposed.
Such thing happened to one of the biggest Russian airline companies Aeroflot that with its partner banks issued special bonus cards. Clients didn’t have to do something extraordinary proving the company’s loyalty. The only thing they had to do was to use a card when purchasing tickets as usual.
As a result, it was too easy to gain the points needed and a lot of clients got access to premium free-of-charge flights. Thus not to lose money the company decided to change the program conditions at the time the program had been already started and limited the number of program participants and increasing the sum of points that were needed for a free-of-charge flight.
Aeroflot avoided losing money, though lied to its clients, spoilt the reputation and significantly decreased its loyalty.