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American Express has created popup lounges to promote their product, such as one a year ago at Chicago O’Hare, and one at LAX.
For years Chase has had a popup lounge around the holidays at the major mall in Short Hills, New Jersey (Newark is a United hub) and more recently at the Westfield San Francisco Center (San Francisco is another United hub).
Last month I wrote that it’s the golden age of air travel with cheap fares all over the world. Most of those fares have been in economy, with sub-$400 roundtrips to Europe and Asia with amazing flash sales. I certainly prefer travel in business class, and readers have been asking for those deals, in the past month I’ve highlighted West Coast to several European cities from $2000 roundtrip, business class to several Asian destinations for $1954, West Coast to Africa from $2146 roundtrip, and Singapore Airlines Business Class to Europe or Asia for Less Than $2000 roundtrip. This last was the best deal of all. Airlines are more aggressively discounting business class than before, not just economy, even if most of the eye-popping sales are in coach (and even if $2000 is of course still…
Several Members of Congress introduced a bill today to outlaw the ultra-low cost airlines like Spirit and Allegiant and raise airfares.
That’s not how they’ll spin it, but that’s exactly what the Seat Egress in Air Travel Act — aka the “SEAT Act” (ha ha) — would do.
Tumi doesn’t often run site-wide across-the-board sales. It’s expensive luggage, but it’s the archetypal bag for the business traveler. People love their Tumi bags, and they usually pay full price unless they’re just taking whatever’s on clearance.
Energy prices are down, meaning that travel to the Gulf region is down. At the same time, there’s less of an appetite to absorb losses.
If you wanted to say more than thank you to a Starwood employee, the way to do it was always handing out certificates sent to elites by Starwood Preferred Guest.
Starwood used to send these paper coupons to Platinum members. There’s now a new way to reward Starwood employees.
In 2013 Delta eliminated SkyMiles elite qualifying miles earning when traveling on their SkyTeam partner Korean Air.
Scuttlebutt at the time was that this was Delta playing hardball with Korean — the Seoul-based carrier wouldn’t do a joint venture with Delta, at least on Delta’s terms, so they weren’t going to incentivize their customers to fly Korean Air.
American Express Centurion Lounges are great. They’re stylish, offer complimentary real hot and cold food items and a complimentary tended bar. The Dallas Fort-Worth and Miami lounges have complimentary spas. There are kids rooms, showers in most. And customer service is great.
The challenge is that, to borrow from Yogi Berra, they’re so good I don’t go there anymore.
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.
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 »
