Monthly Archives for April 2015.
Congressman Bill Shuster is in the pocket of the airline industry. And in bed with them, too. Congressional rules allow him to ‘fall in love with’ whomever he wishes. But he shouldn’t continue on as Transportation Committee Chairman.
With an airline CEO being compensated in all stock, what would it mean for a frequent flyer program President to be compensated in miles?
Here’s 1000 free Avios. A Congressman takes a swipe at TSA ‘authoritah’, Boeing losses, and more.
Last week I wrote “No, I Do Not Trust IHG Rewards Club.”
IHG Rewards Club is the loyalty program for Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, and related brands. And my ire was prompted by their announcement that they would be changing the redemption categories of a subset of their hotels, but weren’t telling us which ones.
They were doing this at the same time they were announcing there would be changes to their elite program — most of which they wouldn’t tell us until later, but we should trust them those changes will be good — and they announced that points will begin to expire after 12 months of inactivity when in the past IHG Rewards Club points did not expire.
Ironically, I write about the current state of my RSS feed and plans for the blog and this is merely an excerpt of the post rather than the full post. So you’ll have to continue for more. Thank you for reading!
Citibank keeps getting better and better, with big signup bonuses for ThankYou points cards, transferrable points, and now a transfer bonus to an airline.
Etihad is bonusing Citibank transfers, and it makes the Etihad Guest redemption program pretty attractive.
Delta didn’t just eliminate their award chart. They didn’t just impose three week advance purchase requirements on saver awards across a majority of their routes. And award seats aren’t just hard to get.
They also impose a practice known as “journey control” — a given Delta flight may be available to some customers as a saver award and not to others.. and it has nothing to do with their elite status.
Here’s what “journey control” is, and what it means for your miles.
Here’s your chance. I will my best to cover your questions. Please leave requests in the comments section. As my boss once wrote making a similar request on his blog, “The only promise is that of weak monotonicity, namely that your mention won’t lower the chance of the topic being covered.” In other words, I won’t promise to cover everything, though I’ll read and ponder everything that’s written here in the comments. It may take me awhile to work through, goodness knows there are things I’m behind on (trip reports, cough, trip reports…). But I’d love to hear from you!
The FAA sampled toilet paper that fell from the sky onto a Pennsylvania town.
The investigation sought to determine if a toilet’s lavatories had malfunctioned.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
