Alaska Airlines’ recent rule change disallows swapping frequent flyer numbers on award tickets for benefits from other programs, but it doesn’t challenge industry norms as much as some think – and parallels practices of airlines like American,.
The CEOs of United, Southwest, American and Alaska all sought a meeting with Boeing’s board without its CEO. This plan was hatched at March 7th meeting of their lobby shop Airlines for America. And it was leaked to the Wall Street Journal.
In the hidden war of tit-for-tat inside the Delta Air Lines Sky Club, Delta raises prices and then customers try to get their money’s worth. Delta responds by enforcing its rules against passengers taking food from the club, but that only encourages the practice further.
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Visa and Mastercard have entered into a $30 billion anti-trust settlement with retailers over card interchange fees. Readers are asking, as one put it, “Is this the end of credit card rewards?”
Just six weeks ago there were rumors that Canadian ultra low cost carrier Flair would be acquiring local rival Lynx. Lynx ceased operations a month ago. Soon Flair may not be around at all either?
On average, cabin crew at Southwest will receive nearly $20,000 when the contract is ratified, representing pro-rated raises they would have gotten had the deal gone into effect in 2019.
Sean John Combs a.k.a Puff Daddy a.k.a P. Diddy, et al may have fled the country on his private jet. The Grammy Award-winning rap artist, who was estimated to have a net worth of $1 billion in 2022, has been sued multiple times for sexual assault. Now the government is after him for sex trafficking. The details of the government investigation haven’t been announced yet. However, Puff’s jet has gone poof out of the U.S.
Delta Air Lines was reportedly forced to pay out $1,500 per passenger when their Los Angeles to Tokyo Haneda flight was overbooked by 42 passengers. That’s $63,000.
This is a pretty good offer for Southwest and for customers. They’ll give you a free companion to travel with you for about two months if you book just two one way flights right away (and use them for travel in the next couple of months).
If you already have travel booked through May 22, consider cancelling and rebooking (if the price of the ticket hasn’t gone up too much) to qualify for this offer.
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 »
