News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- British Airways may be willing to extend the life of expired miles, with the requirement of some account activity within 90 days of their having done so to keep the points alive.
- Not all true: The Best Kept Secrets You Don’t Know About Flying
- The American Airlines Admirals Club Guest Access page now lists the Citi Prestige card as offering access on the same terms as the Citi Executive card. Coupled with with improved points-earning and redemption value, the card is actually worth half a look.
- Doug Parker runs from competition. The New American Airlines strategy in New York seems to be serving small communities rather than major business destinations. And they’re 1000 bonus miles on 10 new routes for travel between April 1 and June 30. Registration required.
- Charlottesville Albemarle, VA (CHO)
- Dayton, OH (DAY)
- Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem, NC (GSO)
- Knoxville, TN (TYS)
- Little Rock, AR (LIT)
- Louisville, KY (SDF)
- Norfolk, VA (ORF)
- Richmond, VA (RIC)
- Roanoke, VA (ROA)
- Wilmington, NC (ILM)
- Charlottesville Albemarle, VA (CHO)
- Etihad is increasing its stake in Air Berlin to 49.9%. The airline will no longer fly beyond Abu Dhabi, either. It will now exist, it seems, primarily to feed traffic to and from the Gulf carrier’s hub.
- Azul Brazlian Airlines will be a new United MileagePlus partner effective April 1. (HT: Rob on Milepoint) The Brazilian-born founder of JetBlue created another ‘Blue’ airline in his country of birth, and now they’re inking a deal with an airline back in the nation where he helped birth two airlines (Morris Air as well).
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When you say: “Doug Parker runs from competition”…not sure if that is a swipe at him? I mean, isn’t running routes free of competition the best plan to optimize financial performance? Look at DL in Minny and Detroit. They are pretty happy with that arrangement, no?
OK you suckered me into the listsicle. The only one I found interesting was the one about coffee and tea: “Did you know that the coffee and tea is made from the same water source as the lavatory?”
Honestly, I don’t know the answer – I can’t ever recall seeing the FA make coffee. But I’ve not seen them dump dozens of plastic bottles into the coffee machine either.
Plenty of incorrect or just obvious stuff in there as well. My favorite was the baggage guy who said “you’re bag will get wrecked no matter what, but if you put an “I (heart) baggage handlers” tag on it we’ll treat your shit nice.”
It wasn’t actually intended normatively, though I do see how it comes across that way (poor word choice perhaps). It was meant as a strong description of the strategies that have been employed in the past, that we’re seeing already shape up. They don’t go head-to-head in major business markets. They fly almost exclusively to or from their hubs.
This is certainly an improvement in the Citi Prestige card, but I don’t think it’s much of one. Unless they allow TYP to transfer to AA miles, I don’t see the card as being very good at all if your goal is premium cabin redemptions.
Most of the new routes US already flys from, so adding Eagle to them is a no brainier.
I don’t know about the other airports, but LIT is getting the LGA flight to replace the DCA US Air flight we’re losing thanks to the merger. May be the case for some of the other airports on that list as well.