Aug
22
2019
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.
United Copies Delta Again, This Time With Cookies
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for August 2019.
Hilton Scores a Huge Coup Over Marriott: Hires Starwood Lurker
Aug
22
2019
Starwood Lurker no longer works for Starwood — or Marriott. The online face of hotel loyalty received the ultimate status match, a new job at Hilton.
Huge Fare Sale Several Cities: Asia and Europe in the $200s Roundtrip
Aug
22
2019
There are several great fares from a variety of West Coast cities to Asia, and from both the East and West Coast to Europe – with several destinations available.
Why is Chase’s Sapphire Preferred Offering a 60,000 Point Initial Bonus?
Aug
22
2019
The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card was the ‘it’ card several years ago and it remains just as good. It had a generous initial bonus, earned double points on travel and dining, came with primary collision coverage when you rent cards, and points transfer to a variety of airline and hotel points programs.
So why the need to increase the bonus to 60,000 points after $4000 spend in the first 3 months of cardmembership?
United Airlines Adds Several New Europe Flights and Makes West Coast – India Year-Round
Aug
22
2019
It’s great to see the airline deploying their new premium-heavy 46 business class seat 767s aggressively, and not just out of Newark or even on pure business routes.
The new Polaris business class seat is a competitive advantage not because it’s better than what Delta, American, or Air France offer – or what British Airways or Virgin Atlantic will offer – it isn’t. It generally lags all of those. However they’re able to offer fully flat direct aisle access business class seats, attractively designed, using less cabin space. That allows them to fit more seats into the same footprint, or add seats without taking out as many from a lesser cabin.
IHG’s New Promotion is Out and it Varies For Everyone, What Did You Get?
Aug
22
2019
IHG Rewards Club is out with its new promotion and to the surprise of absolutely no one on earth it’s called Accelerate.
Registration required for the earning period between September 1 and December 31. You’ll be able to take advantage of a targeted set of offers — various tasks that earn various levels of points. My offer is to earn up to 40,650 points.
25% Award Discount on Top Hyatt Resorts, Stacks With 10% Credit Card Points Rebate
Aug
22
2019
Hyatt is offering 25% off the cash portion of cash and points redemptions and up to a 25% rebate on free night award redemptions at top properties, and for a brief period this even stacks with the 10% rebate available to co-brand credit card customers.
This includes the Park Hyatts Maldives, St. Kitts, Mallorca and MIlan as well as Andaz Papagayo and more.
New Apple Credit Card Already Improves Earning
Aug
21
2019
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.
United Airlines is Giving Away Three Perfect Days in… Newark
Aug
21
2019
With as full as flights are these days, if your United transatlantic flight out of Newark cancels I could easily see the airline not being able to get you out for three days. Then you’d be stuck spending three days in Newark. I’d say you could pitch the story to the airline’s magazine, but somebody already did that.
For as long as I can remember United’s Hemispheres inflight magazine has included a feature “Three Perfect Days” Well, now you can win three perfect days in… Newark.
Does United Basic Economy Mean Having to Clean Your Own Seat? (What’s Grosser Than Gross?)
Aug
21
2019
Airlines don’t do enough to clean planes between flights. I feel especially bad for the cleaners who have to deal with the mess passengers leave behind.
When a customer is faced with a seat that hasn’t been properly cleaned, and can’t be prior to takeoff, I view the seat as inoperative or out of service — if the airline can’t move them, it’s tantamount to an involuntary denied boarding. Cash compensation should be due.
