Southwest Airlines’ flight attendants have secured a landmark four-year contract valued at $6.3 billion, featuring unprecedented benefits including $20,000 retroactive pay, quality of life enhancements, and a set of provisions that position them at the forefront of the industry’s labor standards. It sets a bar for negotiations at United and American – and creates a new challenge for Delta.
Hilton’s tagline is “For the stay.” That implies that you check-in, and aren’t going anywhere. Your car though? Not so much. At the Conrad Orlando it harkens back to an older slogan: “travel should take you places.”
While this month’s Bilt Rent Day offers will be great for some members, I can’t get excited. It isn’t that I don’t care about fitness!
Robinhood Markets has acquired and rebranded the X1 credit card as the Robinhood Gold Card, offering enticing cash back rewards, a unique metal card upgrade for referrals, and strategic financial benefits to deepen user engagement with Robinhood’s ecosystem.
Alaska Airlines’ recent rule change disallows swapping frequent flyer numbers on award tickets for benefits from other programs, but it doesn’t challenge industry norms as much as some think – and parallels practices of airlines like American,.
The CEOs of United, Southwest, American and Alaska all sought a meeting with Boeing’s board without its CEO. This plan was hatched at March 7th meeting of their lobby shop Airlines for America. And it was leaked to the Wall Street Journal.
In the hidden war of tit-for-tat inside the Delta Air Lines Sky Club, Delta raises prices and then customers try to get their money’s worth. Delta responds by enforcing its rules against passengers taking food from the club, but that only encourages the practice further.
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Visa and Mastercard have entered into a $30 billion anti-trust settlement with retailers over card interchange fees. Readers are asking, as one put it, “Is this the end of credit card rewards?”
Just six weeks ago there were rumors that Canadian ultra low cost carrier Flair would be acquiring local rival Lynx. Lynx ceased operations a month ago. Soon Flair may not be around at all either?
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 »
