Delta Platinum members get one ‘choice benefit’ and Diamonds get two.
A Diamond member might choose 4 confirmed international upgrades valid on any fare, a benefit the airline introduced three years ago.
Indeed, now that American Airlines has reduced the number of confirmed international upgrades given upon reaching top tier to 4 and tightened up availability Delta is even with American offering international upgrades to top elites.
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It’s one thing to see sub-$400 transatlantic roundtrips in Winter, as great as that is, but we’re now starting to see fares like this for summer which is peak time to visit Europe and when you normally see the cost of European coach airfares skyrocket. What could be better than Paris in summer for less than $350?
Star Alliance member and United partner EgyptAir is offering business class roundtrips between Mumbai and New York for just $1108.
The base fare is just $183 in each direction — business class fares don’t get much cheaper than this.
Today only you can earn 15 United MileagePlus miles shopping online at several merchants. Some are even stackable with American Express rebates.
Memphis airport plans to allow passengers to purchase beer-to-go.
With 60% fewer passengers using the airport than before Delta acquired Northwest Airlines, in the name of revenue generation Memphis is going to try this grand social experiment. We’ll see what happens. Any guesses?
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Thursday evening’s United Airlines UA946 Washington Dulles – Amsterdam flight was lightly loaded with just 82 passengers onboard — about two-thirds empty — declared an emergency while at 35,000 feet and 180 nautical miles Northwest of Shannon, Ireland.
The plane’s first officer reported that the captain had become incapacitated. They diverted to Shannon and landed 35 minutes later, where the captain was rushed to the hospital.
Non-stop award space in premium cabins between the US and Australia is one of the toughest things to find out of any frequent flyer award in the world.
And American has been anything but generous with premium cabin international award space generally, except during spurts when they open up space. I couple of days ago I wrote about just such a spurt.
Many foreign airlines have strict limits for cabin baggage. Americans aren’t used to this, they can pretty much drag anything onboard that is going to fit in an overhead bin as long as there’s still bin space available and certainly US airlines don’t weigh your rollaboard.
Whether Air France or Virgin Australia, airlines around the world take a different approach even for business class passengers. I do my best to avoid check-in counters when I’ve got heavy bags. If I can get a boarding pass online I will. But if I need to approach the counter, and they see my bag, they’re going to want to weigh it.
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.
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