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Hotels these days are all about the environment, which means their fiscal environment, reducing costs and increasing profit margins. So if they can convince you not to have your sheets changed and to reuse your towels that saves on housekeeping expense and on laundry. Hyatt even took away promised turn down service from top elites.
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Charles, Prince of Wales, visited London Heathrow today to celebrate 10 years since the inauguration of Terminal 5. He’s pictured with British Airways CEO Alex Cruz.
Charles received a guided tour of British Airways’ First Wing. where he may have had a George H.W. Bush supermarket scanner moment.
On April 3 American Airlines will start rolling out complimentary made-to-order Avocado Toast in the mornings in Admirals Clubs. This is in addition to the popular afternoon made to order guacamole that’s available in many of their clubs.
It was supposedly a card that finally figured out how to attract millennials when the truth is it was just a card that offered more total value than most that had ever come before and whose initial marketing was primarily online so new applicants skewed younger.
The value was so rich that word on the street was Chase didn’t even ever expect to make money on a new cardholder until they held the product for 6 or 7 years.
United Airlines has 14 more gates than American at Chicago O’Hare. American is opening 5 new gates that they paid for, reducing the gap to 9. But the new O’Hare expansion plan re-opens the gap and returns United to a 14 gate advantage.
American isn’t losing gates. They are complaining that United is gaining gates. But American is refusing to sign a new lease under these terms.
The LifeMiles credit cards are promoting a special offer. Avianca’s LifeMiles is a Star Alliance frequent flyer program, you can use the miles on United, Lufthansa and more.
The website shows offers of 20,000 and 30,000 mile signup bonuses. However with promo code LM17WB those become 40,000 and 60,000 mile offers instead. There’s no minimum spend requirement, bonuses are awarded after one purchase.
Every Valentine’s Day shopping portal offers get pretty big for Valentine’s-related gifts like flowers. It’s been true almost forever.
The usual ‘big boost’ is earning 30 miles per dollar, which is a pretty good rebate for miles often worth about 1.5 cents apiece (a 45% rebate on the base price of flowers, but not really that big when you factor shipping which doesn’t earn miles).
Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was elected in 2013, and is a member of the Maldivian Democratic Party. His half brother Maumoon Gayoom ruled the country prior to the nation’s first democratic elections in 2008.
The country’s first elected President Mohamed Nasheed was forced to resign in what amounted to a coup in 2012. The new government, representing interests fro the old regime, had him tried and convicted on terrorism charges.
The nation’s Supreme Court threw out those charges last week. The court also ordered the release of other opposition lawmakers who were being held.
The Hyatt Credit Card has been offering several value-added promotions on top of its usual benefits. In the fall of 2016 they also began experimenting with rebates for targeting kinds of spending. Now they’re offering a $30 rebate on drug store and grocery store spend.
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 »
