Incentives

[Tazuk]

Hi All

I have just set up an easy way to purchase helicopter trips and to offer helicopter trips as an incentive.

The average cost for a helicopter ranges from £160 for 30 minutes to £950 per hour for charter. This outside of the budget for most individuals and SME's.

However, I have set up a scheme that allows individuals and companies to purchase points and save them in an account with us. The points can be redeemed for any flight, either for the whole flight or part of the flight.
The points do not expire and you do not have to subscribe to a monthly purchase, just buy when you can afford.

They can be used for sightseeing, weddings, charter and incentives. This brings me on to the question. Would you use these as an incentive? Or use them yourself?

The price per point is less than £2 and the basic flight starts at 100 points, your thoughts please so i can refine this before it is launched on to the website in the next few days.

Thanks

Tony

[dcraigdc]

I think it might be worthwhile as incentives to high flying (no pun intended :D) executives.

I'm not sure how it would run without a lot of promotion but if you managed to get the word out to MD's of sales/marketing/PR firms then it might be something they would consider as a bonus for their employees.

[Greig]

I think it might be worthwhile as incentives to high flying (no pun intended :D) executives.



I'm sure most high flying executives could afford a Helicopter charter or the company would pay for it.

I think it would be a good idea for people wanting to go to sporting events like the British Grand Prix etc, they could buy tokens all year to save up.

[Cornish Steve]

Frequent flyer points are a huge deal for me (I've racked up 50,000 in the last two weeks alone). I use them mostly to help friends; I never use them to help customers.

The approximate value for most airlines is one cent per mile. This would be about one penny for every two miles flown. Some airlines have tried to link frequent flyer points to money spent, but this usually fails. In your case, you could use minutes instead of miles and set your award levels to minutes of flight too.