United’s New Newark-Johannesburg Non-Stop Business Class Awards For Four Passengers

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Oct 03 2020

United will start flying Newark – Johannesburg March 27, 2021. You wouldn’t be taking a holiday there now, but five and a half months is a million years in Covid time and mileage redemptions are especially flexible – a much better idea than paying cash for an international ticket right now.

The route will feature United’s new business class, and there’s excellent award availability right now.

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Kauai Rebels Against Hawaii’s Re-Opening Plan

Oct 03 2020

Hawaii has required everyone arriving in the state to quarantine for 14 days. They’ve put off plans to re-open tourism until October 15. At that point they’ll allow visitors with a negative Covid test within 3 days of arrival to skip quarantine.

The island of Kauai, though, isn’t satisfied and doesn’t want to participate.

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Airlines Sold Debt Backed By Miles. Mileage Mutual Funds and Synthetic CDOs May Be Next

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Oct 02 2020

With securitizing frequent flyer programs the ‘new thing’ J.P. Morgan sees an opportunity to take smaller pieces of a program – rather than a whole thing – and turn them into tradeable commodities.

Why not take pieces of the loan and trade those, creating a more liquid market? Why not then package these into frequent flyer mutual funds, parts of various instruments backed by several airline programs? And why not make a leveraged bet on these?

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