I’ve only had a couple of contributors to the blog over the years, otherwise everything has been written by me. I featured a work colleague (P.C.)’s trip report in Saudia business class to Pakistan, because there were limited reports on the Saudia product and it’s something that seemed useful to Delta members. I added was grateful for an outside legal perspective on the issues raised in the Supreme Court’s frequent flyer miles case as well. Now I’m fortunate to share a trip report that simply was different than most others that have been offered on blogs before… one that’s all in good fun. Constance Peters shared Pippi Peters’ report of her recent Los Angeles – New York JFK flight in American’s first class. What’s different is that Pippi is Constance’s traveling companion, who only sometimes…
The IdeaWorks Study of Reward Availability Is Fatally Flawed. Please Do Not Cite It.
Each year IdeaWorks publishes a ‘study’ of reward availability, and it gets repeated as though it had value across the media. It doesn’t. The methodology is so fatally flawed that it draws almost the exact opposite conclusions as it should. Don’t be fooled.
American Increases its 2015 Premium Fare Bonuses, Without Taking Anything Away
The 2015 American AAdvantage program is providing hefty bonuses to premium cabin flyers while not taking away anything from members flying on discount fares (in other words, 1 mile continues to earn 1 mile — while business and first class tickets earn bonuses like most international programs provide). Already the AAdvantage program provided: Miles based on distance flown Bonus miles for elite frequent flyers Bonus miles for more expensive tickets This is a new bonus added on top. Here’s how it was announced for the year. Here’s what AAdvantage President Suzanne Rubin said at the time the bonus was launched (bolding mine): As the largest airline in the world, with a global network that spans 54 countries, our frequent flyer program must also be the best in the business. A mile flown continues to be…
The Only Visa Infinite in the US is $0 the First Year and Comes With Lounge Access
Visa Infinite is a prestige card in countries around the world, but for the most part hasn’t been available in the U.S. Now a bank is issuing one — and it has no fee the first year, plus a whole lot of benefits like lounge access and an airline fee credit. Should you jump on this opportunity?
This Frequent Flyer Deserved to Have His Account Shut Down. But Not Everyone Agrees…
An American AAdvantage Executive Platinum member gets caught making fictitious premium cabin reservations to boost own upgrade changes. American kicks them out of the program.
He argues he should be able to keep the miles and status he had earned from US Airways, since he ‘only’ defrauded American (or only got caught defrauding American)…
Frontier Airlines is Awful, Scapegoats CEO, Doesn’t Actually Replace Him
Dave Siegel is out as CEO of Frontier Airlines, Frontier says it’s because of their poor operational performance and customer service issues but it probably isn’t really. He wasn’t ‘the guy’ of Frontier’s new ownership, and he hung around about 18 months. He also probably wasn’t the right fit for Frontier anyway (and doesn’t exactly have a strong track record running airlines to begin with).
Review: Boat Transfer and Maldivian Domestic Flight from the Park Hyatt Maldives to Male
Departing the Park Hyatt Maldives, you take a boat to the airport and then an hour long domestic flight to get back to the country’s capital of Male. Here’s the boat and domestic Maldivian flight experience.
Nearly Naked Passenger Storms TSA Checkpoint, Gets Tased on Buttocks
In the latest entry in the Germany or Florida game, the winner is Florida: A man clad only in his underwear and toting Japanese fighting sticks was shot with a stun gun after he dashed into the main concourse of Tallahassee Regional Airport claiming he had a plane to catch…
United Offers Up to 1 Million Miles for Identifying IT Vulnerabilities
United launched a ‘bug bounty’ program where they will provide miles to the first person who identifies and submits a security vulnerability.
They’ve joined the ranks of ‘real’ IT companies by rewarding the general public for identifying software glitches.
500 Free Points, Delta’s Amazing Finances and Crap Service, and Virgin America to Charge for Carry-Ons?
A collection of interesting links you’ll want to see, many you’ll want to click.