Yesterday I did my best to describe the changes that Hilton is making to their loyalty program.
Readers wanted to know why I was tentative about what these changes mean and wasn’t clearer with significant conclusions. Trying to lay out as much as possible about the changes buried my normative take on the changes. So let me offer my framework for evaluating what Hilton is doing.
There are several great deals from New York to Europe on Delta, British Airways and United right now to Zurich, Paris, and London.
You can fly to Zurich, Paris, or London and I’m seeing roundtrip itineraries from just $325.
Monarch Airlines flight ZB-472 from Birmingham in the UK to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt had a fire emergency while enroute.
There crew extinguished the fire in the lavatory of the Airbus A321, and then another fire started which was also extinguished by crew. The flight continued and landed safely.
The aircraft had to be taken out of service. The return flight was postponed a day while a new aircraft was flown in.
Marriott may soon start sending you free drinks to your phone which you can redeem at automatic drink dispensers in hotel lobbies.
The prospect of being emailed free drink codes from the cocktail dispenser sounds like it’ll be a pretty good reason to download the Marriott app if this comes to fruition.
With Alaska Airlines acquiring Virgin America, they’ve set up the ability to transfer points at a ratio of 1 to 1.3 from Virgin American to Alaska Airlines.
They are also handing out Alaska Airlines miles like candy.
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I spoke with Mark Weinstein, Hilton’s Senior Vice President & Global Head of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships to learn more about the changes to Hilton HHonors Honors.
He shared some stats about the program, how redemptions will work starting in late February, and new program features rolling out later in the year.
Immigration lawyer Greg Siskind reports that US citizens who are dual citizens with one of the 7 countries from the ‘not a Muslim ban’ Executive Order are having Global Entry revoked.
Hilton is renaming its program Hilton Honors — dropping the second “H” — and adding four new features to the program.
A Hyatt Diamond can book an award for someone else using their points and confer top elite status for that stay.
The Hyatt-MGM relationship gives you a back door to gift Hyatt elite status to a spouse as well.
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 »
