I wrote on Monday that the terminal 4 American Airlines Club at LAX will be closed for renovations for a couple of months.
They decided that leaving the club partially open during renovations wasn’t working out well and was slowing down the project. So they’re going to close it on September 5. They won’t close it, though, before the new terminal 5 club opens later this month.
People need to stop trusting United with their pets, and United needs to stop killing pets.
Digital payment companies spend money on customer acquisition through bonuses for two basic reasons.
Customers need a reason to adopt a new technology, even if it’s easy they need to be convinced to pay attention.
Technology providers often bet that there’s a lock-in effect or path dependence, whomever gets you to pay attention first and gets you using the technology has a good shot at retaining your business out of habit.
The next IHG Rewards Club promotion is up and available for registration.
They’re coming out with ‘Accelerate’ again for stays between September 1 and December 31 you earn even more points. And in some ways it’s my favorite hotel promotion — not as much for its richness as much because it is sort of fun.
Register for the partner bonus, shop through the Alaska Airlines portal through August 18th and $350 spend for products you’d buy anyway earns 2000 bonus miles or an extra 5.7 miles per dollar. There’s 2000 more miles you can earn as well.
And oh by the way there’s a new member bonus for Mileage Plan Dining as well.
Last month the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (the original so-called ‘rocket docket’) ruled in Linlor v. Polson that individuals may have a private right of action for constitutional rights violations at the security checkpoint, over objections from the TSA.
As a result a man who says a TSA screener “rammed his hand” into the man’s genitals, causing the passenger to “bend over and step away in pain,” during a screening that was the result of opting out of naked imaging at Washington Dulles airport in March 2016 may seek damages based on excessive force.
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Alaska Airlines regional partner PenAir has filed for bankruptcy.
Horizon, of course, is the primary regional carrier for Alaska Airlines so effects on the overall carrier will be slight.
Hertz was once the rental company for business travelers. In this extended montage from Up in the Air when George Clooney is grounded in Omaha he wants to buy a Chrysler Sebring from Hertz.
The rental car business has consolidated, and is under pressure from ridesharing. Hertz owns Thrifty and Dollar. And they’re simply not reliable anymore in my opinion. In fact last year they told me that reservations are never guaranteed.
Delta had Song. United had TED. (On the West Coast they also had Shuttle by United.) US Airways had MetroJet. Consultants, especially McKinsey, were peddling the same idea to major airlines in exchange for big fees. In order to compete they needed to start low cost carriers inside their carrier, and those new airlines would fly leisure routes. They’d offer lower fares. And in the case of Song they’d even offer a better product than mainline.
Gradually the attempts faltered, and each of the airline-within-an-airline concepts was killed.
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 »
