Here’s what you need to know applying for the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card now that it has one of the best card bonuses: 100,000 points after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
The CEO of Frontier Airlines, Barry Biffle, decided to record a video about the airline’s financial prospects for employees. So he went to the lavatory on his flight, sat down and hit record.
The United Airlines flight attendants union sent out a message to cabin crew telling them not to reject a contract that gets sent to them under the theory that it’s always best to turn down the best deal. This suggests to me that the believe a contract is close. United’s flight attendants haven’t had a raise in over five years.
United Airlines is telling flight attendants to stop leaving passengers behind on empty planes. Customers fall asleep in their seats, everyone gets off the plane – and flight attendants have just been leaving them there.
The card’s landing page says that its ‘debut offer’ ends May 7. Until then you can earn 125,000 bonus miles after you spend $5,000 on purchases in the first 3 months your account is open.
American Airlines is rolling out a new afternoon tea service in all cabins on flights from London and Paris to the United States. This is a test and it’s not yet clear when it will end, but looks promising.
Senator John Fetterman was filmed getting into a verbal altercation with the pilot of an American Airlines regional jet on a trip from Washington’s National airport to Pittsburgh. The Senator refused to wear his seatbelt, this was reported to the captain, who intervened very professionally “it is a federal regulation.”
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I’ve been a big fan of the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card. It’s the OG. And right now there’s a lot of attention on it because Chase has come out with an historic bonus offer. There’s no question that the card is worth getting now. But what are the points worth, and what else should you know about the card?
Here are my 13 favorite things about the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card.
A United airlines flight attendant has sparked significant backlash after sharing a Paris layover story online. She and her fellow crewmembers left a junior flight attendant behind at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Rather than feeling bad about this, she criticized the colleague for being “cheap” and bringing her own food which caused them to separate.
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 »
