GoMiles has been acquired by trip planner and point aggregator Traxo; effective immediately all accounts have been migrated into Traxo's systems and users can connect to their accounts at http://www.traxo.com/gomiles. More coverage: http://www.tnooz.com/2012/09/25/new...quent-flyer-tools-collide-traxo-buys-gomiles/ http://boardingarea.com/blogs/thewa...olidation-in-the-loyalty-consolidation-space/
Raises an interesting (to me) question: were users of GoMiles asked if they wanted their account credentials transferred to another entity? Let's say I trusted GoMiles because they had your mug on their "About" page and then they essentially sell that info to someone else I don't know anything about - is that okay? Presumably there was something allowing for this in the fine print of the T&Cs when people signed up for GoMiles?
I wasn't asked so I'm assuming others weren't either. I'm guessing the fine print permits it (and that's a lot of what Traxo was buying if I had to bet). The good news is that deactivating an account from Traxo isn't too hard.
A few years ago, UA offered EQMs for people emailing in competitors' account statements. Not sure what Traxo paid for the accounts, but there's certainly value in this data, especially if you could, say, tie it to your own customer data. Just saying.
