Monthly Archives for November 2022.
Alaska Airlines and Lyft have a new partnership. You’ll earn 1 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan mile per dollar spent with Lyft in the U.S. and Canada, and through December 31 you’ll earn 2 Alaska miles per dollar. Pay with Sapphire Reserve to earn 10 points per dollar as well.
When Western sanctions were imposed on Russia, that voided the aircraft leases on planes operated by Russian airlines. More than half the Boeing and Airbus planes in Russia had to be returned. Airworthiness Certificates were cancelled. The Russian government, though, ordered that the planes not be returned in violation of the country’s Cape Town Treaty obligations. And the planes were re-registered in Russia.
Politics is like professional wresting. What you see is rarely real. Take, for instance, six Democratic Senators urging the FAA to bar airlines from further reducing legroom and seat width. These Senators aren’t calling for more passenger space. They are calling for passengers to not have less space. In other words, they demand the status quo!
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.
Etihad has great business class award space for two passengers between New York JFK, Chicago O’Hare, Washington Dulles and Abu Dhabi for travel from January through end of schedule. You can use Etihad to connect onward to places in the Mideast or destinations in Asia like the Maldives and India.
And there’s a handful of dates with two first class award seats available, also which I’m seeing on the Washington Dulles route.
In our deeply divided world, where we can’t seem to decide whether Elon Musk is a hero to the left (electric cars and solar energy) or villain (since if he allows former President Trump to trashpost on twitter that’ll be a threat to democracy, though it likely helps the political fortunes of Democrats), there’s one thing we can all come together over. Taylor Swift. Hero to the alt-right and to the cultural left.
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 »
