Good Housekeeping should offer itself a seal of stupidity. It recommends best rewards credit cards and somehow manages to put the Capital One GoMiles card at the top of the list. Capital One’s “Go Miles” Visa lets you rack up miles without airline restrictions or blackout dates. For every dollar spent, you earn one mile, and for every 9,000 miles you earn $100 toward a plane ticket. This amounts to a 1.1% rebate, but unlike most rebate cards that pay you cash this rebate limits what you can do with the money. It’s a small award, 1.1%, and the award can only be used on airline tickets. And then you have to book the ticket through Capital One, complying with their rules and restrictions. David Spade may be a cool spokesman, but could there be…
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View from the Wing awards “Rolleyes Award” to Marriott Rewards
Marriott sent out a press release today announcing that they had received several travel awards. Marriott Hotels & Resorts was named by readers of Travel Savvy as the best domestic hotel chain, and Marriott Rewards as the best hotel rewards program. Travel Savvy is a travel lifestyle magazine that covers international and domestic destinations, fashion, design, food, travel news and celebrity travel trends. Readers of Executive Travel, a lifestyle magazine for business travelers, gave Marriott Hotels & Resorts top honors in the following categories: best hotel chain; best for customer service; and best hotel chain for meetings. Marriott Rewards was selected as the best frequent guest program. Ah, yes, the famous annual rankings from Travel Savvy and Executive Travel. Those are much anticipated each year, with management of various travel providers waking up with night…
View from the Wing awards “Rolleyes Award” to Marriott Rewards
Marriott sent out a press release today announcing that they had received several travel awards. Marriott Hotels & Resorts was named by readers of Travel Savvy as the best domestic hotel chain, and Marriott Rewards as the best hotel rewards program. Travel Savvy is a travel lifestyle magazine that covers international and domestic destinations, fashion, design, food, travel news and celebrity travel trends. Readers of Executive Travel, a lifestyle magazine for business travelers, gave Marriott Hotels & Resorts top honors in the following categories: best hotel chain; best for customer service; and best hotel chain for meetings. Marriott Rewards was selected as the best frequent guest program. Ah, yes, the famous annual rankings from Travel Savvy and Executive Travel. Those are much anticipated each year, with management of various travel providers waking up with night…
Starwood Cash & Points Award
Starwood’s last round of cash and points awards expired, but a new set are now available for stays through November 30th and it appears as though there’s an increase in the number of properties participating. The value can be illustrated with a single example: instead of 10,000 points for a night at a ‘categoy four’ hotel (such as the Westin in the Bahamas or the W in Mexico City), the cash and points award gives you that same property for $60 and 4,000 points. Put another way, you’re buying back your points at only one cent apiece. Since I generally consider a Starwood point to be the most valuable hotel or airline currency out there, this is an exceptional value. Not all Starwood properties participate in this promotion. Many do not. But it’s worth checking…
Starwood Cash & Points Award
Starwood’s last round of cash and points awards expired, but a new set are now available for stays through November 30th and it appears as though there’s an increase in the number of properties participating. The value can be illustrated with a single example: instead of 10,000 points for a night at a ‘categoy four’ hotel (such as the Westin in the Bahamas or the W in Mexico City), the cash and points award gives you that same property for $60 and 4,000 points. Put another way, you’re buying back your points at only one cent apiece. Since I generally consider a Starwood point to be the most valuable hotel or airline currency out there, this is an exceptional value. Not all Starwood properties participate in this promotion. Many do not. But it’s worth checking…
McKinsey & Co.: Bubonic plague for the airlines?
Steven Pearlstein lampoons McKinsey & Co’s airline consulting practice — and United and Delta for hiring them at $1 million per month. His Washington Post piece uses United’s 278-page January creditors committee presentation as a case in point.
McKinsey & Co.: Bubonic plague for the airlines?
Steven Pearlstein lampoons McKinsey & Co’s airline consulting practice — and United and Delta for hiring them at $1 million per month. His Washington Post piece uses United’s 278-page January creditors committee presentation as a case in point.
I Think This Was a Law & Order Episode
A former Northwest Airlines flight attendant has been charged with assault for spiking a 19-month-old girl’s apple juice with a depressant to stop her crying during an international flight.
I Think This Was a Law & Order Episode
A former Northwest Airlines flight attendant has been charged with assault for spiking a 19-month-old girl’s apple juice with a depressant to stop her crying during an international flight.
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