Dragonair's own loyalty programme, The Elite, that was launched on 12 February 2001, was merged into Cathay Pacific's The Marco Polo Club from 1 January 2007.

After the 1997 general election, he became Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and embarked on a modernisation programme for the Ministry, loosening its hitherto fierce loyalty to the producer interest, and emphasizing its duty to the consumer.

Unlike its affiliated carrier, Scandinavian Airlines, Estonian Air is not a member of the Star Alliance but it is a part of the SAS loyalty programme, EuroBonus.

The chain also began to pilot a loyalty programme in South West England and Wales.

In May 2011, Bmibaby launched what it called the first European airline loyalty programme tied into a location based social network.

It refers to the fact that the legislative programme of Parliament is determined by the government, and government bills virtually always pass the House of Commons because of the nature of the majoritarian first-past-the-post electoral system, which almost always produces strong government, in combination with the imposition of party discipline on the governing party's majority, which almost always ensures loyalty.

* 2012-in cooperation with Euroset Alfa Bank launches a loyalty card credit programme.

* 2001, Lladró Privilege, a new customer loyalty programme, takes over from the Lladró Collectors Society.

* 2004, Lladró Privilege Gold, a new level of loyalty programme within the Privilege program.

Fnac operates a loyalty programme offering points that are awarded each time the card is presented at the till-point, for each euro spent.

As of 2008, Fnac boasts 1. 8 million members to the programme with the loyalty card also serving as a credit card.

The Cine Buzz Club is a loyalty programme exclusive to Greater Union, Birch Carroll & Coyle and Event Cinemas.

Flying Blue is the loyalty programme of Air France and KLM that offers rewards to passengers travelling on certain types of tickets.

On June 15, 2007, it also became the loyalty scheme of Air Europa as the company was moving towards becoming an associate member of SkyTeam sponsored by Air France ( associate members had to abandon their own frequent flyer programme and adopt that of the sponsoring carrier ).

Gavin Dein son of ex-Arsenal Football Club Vice Chairman David Dein, is the founder and CEO of Reward ( company ), a loyalty programme management company.

Gavin's company, Reward, is a loyalty programme management company that develops specific passion loyalty programmes for companies around the world.

In 2006, in association with Natwest Streamline, Barclaycard Business and Lloyds TSB, Reward developed a new technology to track and reward programme member shopping without the need for a loyalty card.

They had served their late master with exemplary loyalty but were quietly disposed of.

In late April 1978, the committee reported that Amin was purging his opponents, including Soviet loyalists, that his loyalty to Moscow was in question and that he was seeking diplomatic links with Pakistan and possibly the People's Republic of China ( which at the time had poor relations with the Soviet Union ).

As the daimyo increasingly feuded among themselves in the pursuit of power in the Ōnin War, that loyalty grew increasingly strained, until it erupted into open warfare in the late Muromachi period, also known as the Sengoku Period.

Biegler, who is losing the case, tries to persuade her that Al Paquette ( Murray Hamilton ), a bartender who witnessed the murder, knows that Quill raped Laura but is covering this up, either out of love for Mary or loyalty to his late friend.

As he sets out, Stevens has the opportunity to reflect on his immutable loyalty to Lord Darlington, on the meaning of the term " dignity ", and even on his relationship with his own late father.

Wim Vandekerckhove, senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich, points out that in the late 20th century there sprung forth the notion of a bidirectional loyalty between employees and their employer.

In the late 12th and early 13th centuries Ludlow Castle was taken into the care of the crown on multiple occasions to ensure the family's loyalty.

Slavery had been abolished in Saint-Domingue since late 1793 and general Toussaint Louverture had created a government with constitution appointing him President for life, although he still swore loyalty to the French nation.

Afterwards, Bozizé's loyalty was questioned, and in late October 2001 he was dismissed as army chief of staff.

In late imperial China, the examination system and associated methods of recruitment to the central bureaucracy were major mechanisms by which the central government captured and held the loyalty of local-level elites.

* Jews in the Jewish Diaspora have been accused of dual loyalty by the Romans in the 1st century, by the French in the Dreyfus Affair in the late 19th century, in Stalin-era Soviet Union in the 20th century.

Throughout the late 19th century, beginning in the 1860s, a sense of loyalty to the " Fatherland " developed in intellectual circles based in the Levant and Egypt, but not necessarily an " Arab Fatherland ".

During the historic 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, Ramos upon the invitation of then Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, was hailed as a hero even though he was not part of the plan by many Filipinos for his decision to breakaway from the administration of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos and pledge allegiance and loyalty to the newly established government of President Aquino.

Because of his loyalty to Moscow, Litterick expressed contradictory views on Canada's involvement in World War II in late 1939.

Her last act was to send a late night email to all her staff thanking them for showing her " kindness, warmth, respect, personal support, encouragement, loyalty, hospitality and friendship ", concluding that all of this was now completely wasted since someone else would be determining their bonuses.

Demoted due to his suspected loyalty to the late Emperor.

In the late 1960s when the university required faculty to sign an oath of loyalty to the United States, Marinsky refused, calling it a violation of civil liberties, a position that caused some other faculty members to lose their jobs.

Notably, Canada's population growth in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was spurred largely by United Empire Loyalists, who left the American colonies during the Revolution precisely because of their loyalty to Great Britain.

The Kingdom is now ruled by King Mu-Hyool, son of the late King Yuri ( son of Jumong ), and several clans reside within the Kingdom and swear loyalty to King Mhul.

Vodafone UK launched a loyalty scheme named ' Rewardz ' in late 2011, accompanied by a £ 3million marketing campaign featuring two CGI bees.

In late 1999, the Hamburg group met with bin Laden, and pledged loyalty to him.

Upon learning this, Tewodros marveled at the loyalty of the widow of Haile Melekot in contrast to the betrayal of the late king's mother and grandmother.

Here there was a highly developed Jewish community, and separate Monophysite and Nestorian Christian communities, and during the late Sassanian period the rulers experimented with arrangements by which efforts were made to ensure the loyalty of the population by granting military protection and some degree of religious toleration in return for the payment of taxes.

Deng rewarded his GM's loyalty by playing dominating basketball in the Bulls ' first-round playoff sweep of the defending champion Heat in April 2007.

In April 2007, sporting goods company Reebok debuted the Big Papi 10M Mid Baseball cleat at a party in Canton, Massachusetts, home to the headquarters of Reebok International Ltd. At the party, Ortiz was quoted as saying, " Reebok's loyalty and friendship have always made me feel right at home and we are true partners in every sense of the word ,...

It is also known for having introduced a number of innovations, including Ireland's first supermarket loyalty cardin 1993, SuperClub re branded in 2007 as Reward Card.

* Buckinx W., Geert Verstraeten, and Dirk Van den Poel ( 2007 ), " Predicting customer loyalty using the internal transactional database ," Expert Systems with Applications, 32 ( 1 ).

The label has fostered a certain degree of artist loyalty with artists like Axwell, who has released two records so far through the label, " Watch The Sunrise " ( 2006 ) and " I Found U " ( 2007 ), as well as joining together with Defected Records to release Axwell's co-production with Bob Sinclar " What A Wonderful World ", featuring the vocals of Ron Carroll and licensed for a digital download re-release from Sinclar's own Yellow Productions label.

On December 20, 2007, Aeroplan Income Fund acquired Loyalty Management Group, a loyalty marketing and customer driven insight and analysis business that owns and operates Nectar, the UK's leading coalition loyalty program.

Early in 2007, he was linked with a move away from Northampton at the end of the 2006-07 season, but soon committed his loyalty to the club.

In 2007, the program went completely electronic, allowing customers to link their Food City loyalty cards to the particular school they wish to donate to.