For the past couple of years, the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card — which offers double points on travel and dining, everyday — has offered triple points on dining the first Friday of each month.
That made the first Friday of each month not just a great day to eat out but a great day to buy restaurant gift certificates, too. However, I’ve learned that Chase will be discontinuing this benefit at the end of the year.
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Hyatt Gold Passport is offering up to a 40% bonus on purchased points through July. It’s targeted for elites.
In some ways that seems a strange limitation. Elites already have the most points They’re most likely to use points to greatest savvy effect, why discount for them?
One interesting truism is that people who earn the most points are also the ones who value them the most and tend to buy. Your points buyers are the people most engaged in the program.
As part of American and Qantas working more closely together, American will be launching Los Angeles – Sydney service (not yet bookable) and Qantas will return to the San Francisco – Sydney market.
The Qantas flight, which begins operating December 18, is now loaded in schedules and bookable. And business class award space on the flight is really good.
Spirit Airlines wants you to demand your money back from legacy airlines for all of the ‘free’ stuff you didn’t use on your last flight. Since in Spirit’s view, you were overcharged. (HT: Paul B.)
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Scott Mayerowitz and David Koenig have a piece out on airline industry consolidation titled “Airlines carve US into markets dominated by 1 or 2 carriers.” The point is to suggest that airline mergers are driving up prices and reducing choice. I’m not sure that gives a fair read to the situation. At least to some extent though it seems like the conclusions flow from the way the piece is framed rather than clearly from the data.
Yesterday Delta announced effective immediately, award bookings for travel June 1 onward may have new prices only Delta won’t tell us what those prices are.
Delta also announced that upgrade prices are going up for June 1 travel onward, but more fares will be eligible.
We now know what the upgrade miles prices are. And they’re absolutely nutty.
Delta says they’ve changed award and upgrade prices for travel June 1 onward. And they’re telling you about this change now – which has already gone into effect — to provide the most notice possible. Only they won’t even tell you what the changes are.
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