Last week I wrote about the status of the $400 AARP discount for premium cabin British Airways tickets.
The discount has been around for awhile, and gets renewed on an annual basis. The current one shows valid for bookings made by October 31 — only it’s been erroring out, leading to speculation that it was pulled early. Fortunately, it is working again.
Starwood is offering 150 points for updating security questions, and many can get 200 points for opting into emails.
United now gives a free first drink to top elite frequent flyers seats in coach. But 1Ks and Global Services members were already getting free drinks (annual drink coupons). if the program replaces drink chits that could mean the end of free drinks for Platinum members. And snacks aren’t included, which makes United the less generous than American and Delta.
Between now and March American Airlines award availability between the US and Paris is very good. The absolute best availability appears to be from New York and Philadephia, although there is also some space from Miami, and Dallas.
Monday and Tuesdays are the absolute best, there are days with 7 or more business class award (and upgrade) seats available. But in the midst of winter you’ll see strong availability across several days of the week.
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Spirit Airlines copied Southeast Asian low cost carrier Scoot’s branding.
Now another Southeast Asian low cost carrier is aping Spirit’s advertising.
JetBlue has opened a farm at JFK airport. But it’s too small to actually grow anything useful for the airline. Instead it’s “meant to educate travelers more than actually feed them.”
The farm isn’t even open to the public although pending future regulatory approval they hope to have programs for students, and possibly allow frequent flyers to sign up to visit.
A DC-based flight attendant tapes notes to the windows on flights she’s working.
Taylor Tippett and has started garnering media attention, because I suspect a little bit of inspiration while we’re flying in a metal tube really resonates with people.
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On Monday I wrote about four changes coming to Marriott Rewards. The public announcement of these changes is coming next week. But they’ve gone ahead and confirmed them on the Marriott Insiders website.
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