New Way to Earn Hyatt Elite Status Credit

by Gary Leff

New and notes from around the interweb:

  • Hyatt has introduced earn and burn – and elite night credit – with their new Lindblad Expeditions partnership. It’s the elite night credit that surprises me.

    Earning and Redemption

      • Members earn five Base Points per $1 USD of eligible spend, not including incidentals
      • Members receive their standard elite tier Bonus Points on eligible spend, not including incidentals (10% Discoverist, 20% Explorist, 30% Globalist)
      • Members are able to redeem points to use for free expeditions

     

    Member Benefits

      • Members of all tiers are rewarded with a $250 on-board credit to use on expeditions
      • Members receive elite tier qualifying night credits for eligible nights on a Lindblad expedition
      • Members can purchase or redeem points for specially curated Lindblad Expedition experiences during limited-times through FIND
      • World of Hyatt Credit Cardmembers can earn an additional 4x points per $1 USD of eligible spend on Lindblad Expeditions. Hyatt Credit Cardmembers can earn an additional 3x points per $1 USD of eligible spend on Lindblad Expeditions.
      • AAdvantage® members with elite status (Gold or higher) who are also members of World of Hyatt and have linked their accounts can earn 1 AAdvantage bonus mile per $1 USD of eligible spend on Lindblad Expeditions.

     

  • Bernie Sanders inserts himself into the American Airlines-mechanics negotiations. That’ll solve things.

  • American has signed on to moving Beijing operations to the farther-out new Daxing airport (HT: @IshrionA)

    China Eastern Airlines, in partnership with Delta, Air-France and other Skyteam members, plans to use the new airport to expand its operations and customer base. At least 10 domestic carriers and several foreign carriers—including American Airlines and British Airlines—have also signed on to moving operations to Daxing, while others have remained hesitant, given the costs of transferring equipment and staff to the new location.

  • Japan Airlines seat map now shows where babies are so you can avoid them.

  • DoubleTree is a conversion brand. Hilton can take a hotel that doesn’t fit the cookie-cutter nature of one of their other hotels and slap the DoubleTree name on it. But they want to give it some consistency. So they made DoubleTree hotels known for their cookies. And one DoubleTree hotel even has a cookie-themed suite.

About Gary Leff

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 »

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Comments

  2. Can airlines show me where all the obese people are sitting? I’d pay more for a dynamically priced seat next to a small-framed elderly woman over a 275-lb 50 year old road warrior any day.

    I know it’s not going to happen but I’m not joking.

  4. Or how about charging per pound. Step on the luggage scale and pay your surcharge.

    But wait, then those who complain about children on board would have even more to scream about. They would hate to loose their subsidy from families who have to pay more than them because the family can’t do economy because they can’t risk not being able to sit next to their child.

  5. So Gary, what are the odds these days on Parker’s tenancy at AA?

    Kudos on your reply to “hey Stupid” aptly named

  6. As a gay male, I would thrilled if the airlines could come up with a seat map that show where the hot guys are sitting

  7. Finally, no-kid zones! Such a small change that has the potential to make so many travellers happier. Adults get to avoid kids if desired, and it’s likely that kids and their parents will get more empty seats around them, giving them a bit of extra space that they need. Well done JAL!

  8. The article fails to state when AA will move its operations from PEK to PKX. When is the key issue. As I stated before, as of last week, the AA PEK station manager was unaware of any AA changes and stated CZ was moving only 10% of PEK flights. Some (me) purchase connecting flights at Beijing. It is obviously important to know which airport the flights operate out of. As of today AA is showing no PKX flights on its site.

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