Monthly Archives for December 2017.
United’s Polaris lounge in Chicago is so far the only new business class lounge United has opened. No Polaris lounge opened in 2017.
United updates us again and no longer promises any delivery date for future lounges on its Polaris Tracker website. They merely list San Francisco, Newark, and Houston as ‘under construction’ with the rest ‘in planning’.
Flightglobal reports on a leaked memo to the airline’s pilots that they’ll be adding seats to the coach cabin of their 21 Boeing 757-300 aircraft.
On Tuesday around 6 p.m. terminal 2 of the St. Louis airport was evacuated because of a burning bagel.
Is it weird my first thought was you’re supposed to burn the bagels in St. Louis, that it can only make a St. Louis bagel better?
Just as Marriott excluded Ritz-Carlton hotels, Hilton excuded Waldorf=Astoria properties. Those hotels were allowed to offer breakfast but weren’t required to, largely because a handful objected. However Hilton has overcome those objections and elite breakfast benefits will no longer exclude Waldorf properties.
On the same day and at the same airport last year three pilots faked fuel emergencies in order to get priority for landing. But that was Kolkata, India, and the airlines in question were IndiGo, Air India, and SpiceJet.
You certainly don’t expect anything like that to happen in the U.S., although some pilots have a sense of humor that might lead certain passengers to think something like that is happening.
Iberia is a oneworld airline based in Spain with an underrated fully flat business class product. They’re owned by IAG, the same airline that owns British Airways, and they’re a oneworld partner of American Airlines.
The great thing about Iberia is that when you use Iberia Avios to redeem for Iberia flights they charge fewer miles than British Airways or American does and they do not add usurious fuel surcharges. What’s more they occasionally discount their already reasonable award prices.
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.
A Marriott hotel in Atlanta is being sued for kicking a woman with a reservation out of the property because she wouldn’t pay extra to stay on a “swinger’s floor.”
She had booked a 3 night New Years Eve stay but was asked for more money “for being on a floor that had been completely booked by Swingers of Atlanta.”
After the Las Vegas shooting massacre there were calls for limits to be placed on hotel ‘do not disturb’ signs even though there was no indication that a do not disturb sign played any role in the shooting.
Now Hilton will no longer honor Do Not Disturb signs for more than 24 hours.
NIKI was driven into insolvency with the collapse of air berlin and withdrawl of support from Etihad. It was expected that the Austrian carrier would go to Lufthansa (specifically their low cost subsidiary Eurowings), but European competition regulators shut down that possibility.
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 »
