Monthly Archives for March 2017.
Hilton’s Honors program revamp is up and running. They’ve completed the transition to a pseudo-revenue based program. They eliminated award charts, but of course they had already varied pricing of expensive hotels now they’re doing it for all hotels and allowing prices to flex down as well as up.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
British Airways announced significant seat ‘densification’ — adding a bunch of seats into the current planes, which necessarily means less room for customers than there is today.
And their planes are already plenty dense. British Airways arguably has the worst lie flat business class seat in the industry at 8-abreast on their Boeing 777s.
Here are the leaked details of an announcement expected today by Alaska Airlines about the elite benefits that are coming for travel on Virgin America.
The major reason I’m writing about this fare is because it’s super interesting. With more and more airfare flash sales you can take advantage of, it’s often the case that the fare itself is almost zero and the airline is only making money on ‘fuel surcharges’ — junk fees that make no sense at all in a world of cheap oil.
IHG Rewards Club has a new partnership that saves you on gas just for signing up (and giving your membership number at the pump). You’ll save up to 7 cents a gallon at Shell, stackable with other gas savings and with leveraged credit card earning from bonus categories.
I’ve always found US government travel warnings to be overly cautious. I have no problem transiting the Istanbul airport, booking an award on Turkish Airlines (just hope your seat opponent doesn’t whisper to a flight attendant that you’re a Gulenist).
Since I’m willing to go places like this, it seems worth highlighting a counterpoint. The government doesn’t say ‘don’t go to Mexico’ just that there are some Bad Hombres™ there.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
The European Parliament voted to call on the EU’s executive branch to force Americans to apply for visas in order to visit Europe.
European lawmakers set a May deadline, so that this would affect American summer vacations — they want to be punitive .
I was in Las Vegas Thursday morning taping something for a television network. We wrapped earlier than expected and I headed to the airport with the show’s producer. And since I didn’t want to spend 3 hours in the Centurion lounge if I didn’t have to, I worked to get rebooked onto an earlier flight.
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 »
