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.
It looks like the American Airlines LAX terminal 4 Admirals Club may be closed for a couple of months. They’re going to renovate and consolidate clubs in Boston. And move some international flying from New York JFK to Philadelphia.
Before Nicholas Kralev covered airline travel and frequent flyer programs at the Washington Times he was the paper’s diplomatic correspondent – which is a major portfolio for a DC paper.
He’s written a recent book on the US foreign service and he’s traveled with former Secretary of States Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton and has visited more 80 American embassies.
Now he’s combined his two loves offering diplomatic tours, taking small groups behind-the-scenes peak at how U.S. diplomacy works overseas.
Two years ago, when there was still a plan on the table for Starwood to be independent even as their board shopped the chain to other companies, they announced a $100 million marketing plan to revive the lagging Sheraton brand.
In fact in Asia Pacific, the Sheraton brand is strong. It signals quality. Sheratons are generally nicer than nearby Westins. The Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit is a true world class hotel, for instance.
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 »
