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Monthly Archives for February 2022.

U.S. Airlines Ask Biden Administration To End Testing Requirement For International Travel

by Gary Leff

Feb 03 2022

I continue to believe that The transportation mask mandate will end before election day. However restrictions on foreigners are politically stronger, so it takes real lobbying by the industry (it would help to get Sara Nelson on board) to move the needle. And it would be especially awkward to drop a testing requirement right after the Biden administration started mailing tests to everyone. Leave aside that only some of those tests can be used for travel, it creates a bad optic to say testing isn’t important and we’re sending everyone tests.

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New Zealand Will Welcome American Tourists By July

by Gary Leff

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Feb 03 2022

New Zealand has announced its 5-step plan to re-open borders and it includes welcoming American tourists without quarantine starting in July – or earlier.

This upgrades the chances that Australia’s plan to re-open to tourism before Easter will hold. If New Zealand’s Prime Minister can talk about re-opening publicly, then the politics of re-opening across the Tasman have a greater chance of working out as well.

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Internatioal Business Class Passengers Turned Away From Qantas Lounges In Australia

by Gary Leff

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Feb 02 2022

oneworld lounge access rules provide business class lounge access for business class passengers flying any airline in the alliance. Qantas is using first class lounges as business class lounges, but haven’t renamed those lounges as business lounges so they’re excluded. Hopefully they’ll fully re-open lounges as their international route network restarts – and as partner airlines rebuild their Australia schedules as well.

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Shopping Portal (Mileage Mall) Transactions May Be Increasingly Likely To Go Wrong

by Gary Leff

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Feb 02 2022

For years the issue would arise largely when an offer was published with a mistake that consumers took advantage of. Now there are more offers that will just be more expensive than retailers have budgeted for. And consumers may have more of an interest in spotting these opportunities both because stacking makes them more attractive, and because American’s Loyalty Points scheme makes doing so more rewarding.

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