I’ve been following the work of Chris Guillebeau for a long time. Chris has visited every country in the world and he did it as a miles and points guy, he wrote an introductory guide that I covered back in 2009.
His books always hit the New York Times best seller list.
Hilton’s big changes this year have been all about making small amounts of points useful. They got rid of their award chart along with free points pooling across members, and promised a new shop with points experience with Amazon to replace their existing HHonors merchandise redemptions.
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Delta is touting that their Seattle Sky Club was ‘awarded “North America’s Leading Airport Lounge 2017” by the World Travel Awards this weekend.’
I don’t even know where to begin with this.
The American Express Centurion Lounge at Dallas Fort-Worth is going to be moving from its current D14 location to opposite space near gate D17 “on the mezzanine” level and “just inside security.”
The top 6 credit card issuers handle 61% of credit card purchase volume.
Chase is the market leader by a wide margin. American Express and Citibank traded places after Citibank took the Costco co-brand card from Amex, which had been American Express’ largest cobrand deal and substantially larger than Delta at number two (Starwood is number three).
ast week Chase’s CEO slammed bitcoin. He’s “skeptical authorities will allow a currency to exist without state oversight.”
Dimon said he’d fire anyone who traded bitcoin.
Delta is largely eliminating its Tokyo Narita hub in favor of non-stop flights between the US and Asia and connections over Seoul via a joint venture with Korean Air.
Towards that end Delta will be eliminating service to Guam, which it flies to via Narita, with its last flight January 8.
Bank of America has entered the premium rewards credit card market (or that’s what they want you to think) and they’ve come up with a name for the product to emphasize this: Bank of America Premium Rewards Credit Card.
Zodiac Aerospace created what for a long time was the best business class seat in the world, the Cirrus seat which was a reverse herringbone fully flat bed with direct aisle access. Airlines from US Airways to Cathay Pacific, American (on the 777-300ER), EVA Air and Air France made great use of the product.
The seat maker’s biggest challenge in recent years has been delivering product on time.
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 »
