Keith Alexander’s column in today’s Washington Post covers Delta’s change from domestic upgrade coupons to unlimited upgrades, and gives the nod to the organizers of Save Skymiles for prompting the change.
About Gary Leff
Hurry – short window of opportunity
1-800-Flowers.com is offering 100 miles per dollar spent on flowers. In other words, if you spend $400, you earn enough miles for a domestic first class ticket — and you have $400 worth of flowers.The meat of the offer: As a Delta
Double miles from Alaska Airlines
Register for double Alaska Airlines miles on Alaska, Horizon, American, and American Eagle flights between January 3rd and March 15th.
Air Canada restructuring documents available
The 18th Report of the Monitor, Ernst & Young Inc, was released yesterday. It provides a comparison between the Cerberus bid and the Trinity Time (Li) bid for the carrier. Attachments to the report and past documents are also available online.And while we’re on the subject of Air Canada, there is a current promo (registration required) to earn up to 60,000 miles for flights between Canada and Europe, Asia, Australia, India or Tel Aviv, and on non-stop scheduled flights operated by Lufthansa between Canada and Germany. Any status-earning fares qualify.
In a giving mood?
There’s still a week left to take advantage of the American Express offer of triple Membership Rewards points for charitable donations made in December.
You learn something new every day
If I had ever thought about it, I guess I would have assumed there was a way to earn miles for overnight shipping. I just never really thought about it. Of course, I get a volume discount from Federal Express. And Amex “OPEN” cards offer a cash kickback on FedEx as well. But miles?Turns out that you can Priority Club Rewards points for Airborne Express shipments. 5000 points with the first shipment, and 4 points per dollar spent.
Respect for the law
A Brooklyn, New York police officer is being investigated after writing (under a pseudonym) on the internet that he beat suspects, falsified parking tickets, and regularly ignored calls to his precinct for help.“So I have come up with a better way of writing tickets. I just write down the plates of the cars that cut me off the the (sic) parkways and I send them a bogus parking ticket in the mail. The person will then have to deal with the Parking Violations Bureau and not me. Problem quickly resolved. So, in other words, be careful who you cut off on the road. They might be an off duty cop and they could write your plates down and write you a $150 parking ticket. Have a nice day.” … “Sitting behind a desk and looking…
A new business school case study in real life
A group of business schools will take over failing French carrier Air Littoral. I suppose it’s a great way to test B-school theories, and will be interesting to watch!
Libya here we come!
President Bush has announced that Libya has agreed to reject weapons of mass destruction. This will presumably pave the way for lifting the travel ban on US citizens heading to Libya. And for mileage junkies, it will mean easier access to rock-bottom airfares ex-Tripoli and Bengali!
Justice Department investigating United and Mesa
The Justice Department has launched an antitrust investigation into United and Mesa for colluding to squash low cost competition at Washington Dulles airport.United Express carrier Atlantic Coast is in the process of rebirthing itself as a low cost carrier, while Mesa has bid for the airline and would presumably continue the United Express relationship.It’s fairly safe to say that Atlantic Coast is well-connected politically in the DC area and has had the support of Virginia Senator George Allen and is getting its money’s worth out of prestigious law firm Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher.What most of the country outside of my home turf of DC fails to realize is just how important political connections can be in matters such as these. An outstanding tactic on their part, although to my mind completely silly. Far from being…
