Starting May 1, American Airlines is going to start boarding planes earlier. They think this will reduce the chaos of boarding. Most domestic mainline flights will board 5 minutes earlier than before. This was just shared with the airline’s employees today – most domestic flights will start boarding 40 minutes prior to departure.
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I feel like American could invest in just offering this to all members who reach 15,000 Loyalty Points. They will sell 1,000 Loyalty Points to partners for about $50. So they consider the 1,000 Loyalty Points you’re giving up to select the bag tag to be worth real money.
American Airlines is running a promotion that should be available in most accounts to earn 500 bonus loyalty points per flight segment taken in March, up to 5,000 bonus loyalty points.
You can transfer 1,000 Capital One points into 5,600 JetBlue TrueBlue points right now. And since JetBlue points are worth about 1.3 cents apiece, that means getting 7.3 cents per Capital One point in value which is almost unheard of.
A passenger on board the 24 year old Embraer 145 regional jet (registration N653AE) operated by American’s wholly-owned regional carrier Piedmont had to use the lavatory prior to departure. But this wasn’t just any bathroom visit.
The new proposal is being called the Trump Gold Card or Trump Visa but of course there was already a Trump Visa, issued by Chase.
The deceased passenger collapsed in the aisle after coming out of the restroom and could not be revived. Crew tried to move her in a wheelchair to an empty business class seat, but couldn’t make it down the aisle. So they placed her in an empty seat beside other passengers – who say they were told not to move elsewhere in the cabin.
A Southwest Airlines pilot narrowly averted disaster this morning when their Boeing 737-800 (registration N8517F) was preparing to land at Chicago Midway airport. Flight 2504 from Omaha was in the gradual pitch-up just prior to touchdown when it initiated a go around as a business jet crossed the runway. The plane climbed out, and landed safely 15 minutes later.
Hyatt is keeping an award chart, and they’re not changing the points prices of that chart. That’s the good news, I suppose. But their annual category changes are out – going into effect in one month on March 25 – and they’re heavily biased towards price increases.
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 »
