Monthly Archives for August 2015.
In addition to their ranking of best airline frequent flyer programs, US News has taken a stab at coming up with a ranking for the best hotel loyalty programs.
They even almost built a reasonable approach: How much do you have to spend to get a free room? What else can you do with your points and how well do they treat frequent guests? Is the program offering you rooms everywhere you want to be, and at your desired price point?
US News is out with its new 2015 ranking of the best frequent flyer programs.
And though their top two picks are plausible you really should ignore this ranking, and I hope no one cites it.
I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
With US Airways flights scheduled to be entirely on the American Airlines platform come October 17, and IT resources focused primarly on the merger integration, American AAdvantage is simply running out of time to make big changes for 2016.
The man who declared United’s most frequent customers to be ‘over-entitled’ has resigned as the airline’s CFO to take a similar position at Paypal.
The new look for the Starwood American Express card, to coincide with new card benefits rolling out August 11, has been revealed. The new card is a pretty sweet looking… purple!
[T]he way to get value out of SkyMiles remains to use them for international business class awards on partner airlines. And the funny thing is, that’s how you’d usually get value out of SkyMiles even before their recent devaluations.
There’s frequently a huge discrepancy in pricing between awards on Delta and awards on partners. So I still think that where Delta eventually goes is to change the pricing model for travel on partners. Here’s how that would work.
I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
A reader asks for advice in securing Etihad first class awards. They are a fantastic value with American Airlines miles, and the product is one of the very best for the seat, food, and amenities. And there are some patterns to watch to book these awards like an expert.
The old joke about how to become a millionaire quickly is to start off with a billion dollars and invest in an airline. The idea that airlines are profit-generating machines, earning unfair rates of return on the backs of consumers, is hard to square with this. Which view is right?
And more importantly, how do you get lower fares in the future than you have today?
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 »
