Coming Soon: American Express Will Let Platinum Cardmembers Book Sold Out Restaurants By App

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Sep 22 2018

American Express offers its Global Dining Collection program to The Platinum Card from American Express cardholders and to Centurion (Black Card) customers.

These are top restaurants where American Express has an arrangement to set aside some tables for cardmembers. You’ve had to make bookings through their concierge service. They’ll be launching searches for reservations, including special set-aside availability, through the American Express mobile app first in the UK starting next month and then in the US next year.

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American Has a New Electronic System for Giving Out Hotels, Meals, and Transportation During Delays

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Sep 22 2018

American Airlines is in the process of rolling out a new “Hotel, Meal & Transportation (HMT) system” that will replace vouchers for hotels and meals during irregular operations with “a virtual credit card for hotels and meals.”

Vouchers can be emailed to customers or printed, so that vendors no longer need to return paper vouchers for payment.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No, It’s a Bird ON a United Plane!

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Sep 21 2018

Last night United’s San Francisco – Newark redeye, flight UA1796, was delayed for a much shorter period of time than you’d expect when when a bird found itself trapped and flying around inside of the airline’s Big Metal Bird.

United’s Newark-bound stowaway was captured and released. When it arrived at Newark on its own it declared, “boy are my arms tired.”

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People Keep Trying to Steal American Airlines Planes. That Never Ends Well.

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Sep 21 2018

A man hopped a fence at the Melbourne, Florida airport — and got on board an American Airlines plane. This happened around 2 a.m. These incidents never end well.

The perpetrator is a 26 year old man from Trinidad “who entered the country via Canada” and is a student pilot. He wasn’t very sneaky. Maintenance workers saw him. And then tackled him.

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Star Alliance Member EVA Air Reveals Brand New Business Class for Boeing 787s

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Sep 21 2018

Taipei-based Star Alliance member EVA Air has one of the world’s best business class products. They should be on everyone’s radar because they also frequently have very good award availability from their US gateways and offer good connectivity into Asia.

EVA Air will take delivery of its very first Boeing 787-9 on October 2. They worked with BMW’s Designworks on the look and feel of the business class seats.

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3 Things That Will Happen Now That American Airlines Has Raised Checked Bag Fees

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Sep 20 2018

American Airlines just announced what should surprise literally no one, that they’re raising first and second checked bag fees by $5 as well, from $25 to $30 and $35 to $40 respectively. When United followed JetBlue, it was clear American would have to — they’re under real pressure from Wall Street over revenues and would have a difficult time explaining why they’d be “leaving money on the table.”

Once Delta made the move, American was never going to stand alone. And besides, Delta did it. Delta is smart, everything they do must be right.

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