I don’t think American owes anybody for going back to Dallas after what was probably a bird strike. Captain made the best call and everybody handled the situation wonderfully.
Issues with crew and with IT systems, though, were on American and responsible for half the delay so I’m glad to see them act proactively.
Matthew Klint at Pen and Passport offers up a scoop on changes coming to Hyatt Gold Passport. He says details will be announced November 1 and go into effect March 17.
The upshot of these reported changes is that top tier elites won’t be able to qualify on stays alone anymore, and the night requirement is going up a bit, but this comes with even more benefits than Hyatt already offers.
Hilton HHonors was running a bonus on purchased Hilton points through October 21.
But the 100% bonus offer has been extended through October 31. It’s the cheapest I’ve seen Hilton sell points, and you can get 160,000 this way.
I can’t believe the myth about buying the cheapest tickets Tuesday afternoons persists.
At least it’s not the old “after midnight” Tuesday night story because ‘that’s when untickted reservations expire’.
United and its Star Alliance partners like Air Canada have declared a fare war on Delta, offering flights to Europe out of Delta hubs for as little as $312 roundtrip. And you can still earn 1 mile per mile flown.
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A year and a half ago Wyndham launched a new program that gave members a single award chart price of 15,000 points per night. That was an increase for the cheapest hotels, and a decrease for the most expensive hotels. (They also introduced cash and points awards that are capacity controlled costing 3000 points plus a variable amount of cash.)
Now they’ve got a huge new expansion in the number of places you can redeem points, and next year where you can earn points and receive elite recognition too.
If you have a lot more points than a haircut would cost, you can now use your SkyMiles — again at just a penny a point — for private jet travel with Delta Private Jets.
In 19 tricks to know about Marriott Rewards I outlined ‘travel packages’ — redeem points for airline miles and a week’s hotel stay.
Through November 14 you get a 20% bonus transferring Marriott points to American AAdvantage so you’d actually receive 144,000 AAdvantage miles. Here’s how you can use that…
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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 »
