News and notes from around the interweb:
- Frontier Airlines miles will expire after just six months instead of the customary 18 months starting in March. They’re inching closer and closer to Spirit Air (their private equity ownership and their President come over with Spirit backgrounds).
- Hints about the first routes for American’s 787.
- The @USAirways Twitter account will close at the end of the month. One more step towards integration with American.
- JetBlue now offers Coursera course content through its inflight entertainment. I rarely use an airline’s entertainment system, I work instead but if I’m going to watch something it will be on my laptop. But if I were going to use there content, this is exactly what I’d want.
- The $950 annual fee Merrill Lynch Octave card. Way too high a price point for the benefits, Bank of America offers a similar rebate card without the price tag and the perks aren’t as good as American Express Platinum. Still there will be a handful of folks who make use.
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if they’re both DFW based and one Asia and one SA then my guess would be DFW-PEK/PVG plus DFW-GIG
Unless … JAL announces HND-DFW, then AA switches one of the 2x DFW-NRT over to 787
I can confirm 787 is DFW to East Asia from one of the pilots in the sim currently.
there/their
Hey Gary,
I read today on fammivolare.boardingarea.com that Alitalia’s Millemiglia program was bought by Ethiad. Do you know anything about it? Does this mean the end of the sweet spots in that program?
@Bill – no changes at this point, Etihad is the latest and maybe last deep pocket to bail out the Italian carrier. It remains in Skyteam, no immediate award chart changes, the goal here is to drive traffic through Etihad’s Abu Dhabi hub.