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Internet access bonus
Comcast has a new offer for 10,000 United miles with signup for high-speed cable internet.
Free Zagat Online
Zagat is offering a free 30 day trial (no credit card required). Just sign up with promotion code 30FREE26B before November 26, 2003.
The small victories matter
American Airlines brings back Dr. Pepper.
Atlantic Coast’s Strategic Plan
Here’s a link to Atlantic Coast’s business presentation for operating as a standalone low cost carrier. The points ACA makes: Low cost carriers are a growing market niche. Washington, DC is a big market. Regional jets are good and other low cost carriers use or are considering them. Uh, okay. They’ve stated the obvious. How about their plan? Utilize their current terminal at Dulles (perhaps minus the old T gates). Fly Airbus aircraft to LA, San Francisco, and Denver — United bread and butter routes, and in the first two cases routes where they face competition from JetBlue which services Oakland and Long Beach. Utilize their planes a third more than the major carriers — although it’s not clear how they achieve this with a transcon, at least one routes and departures for which there…
Expedia $25 off Hotel Coupon
Expedia is offering $25 off a 2 or more night hotel stay. Enter a coupon code and the discount is yours. The email that I received listed the coupon code as holidaybonus. The aforementioned link lists it as hotelbonus.
Northwest and Cheaptickets Fully Sever
Northwest Airlines tickets purchased at Cheaptickets.com already didn’t earn frequent flyer miles. Now Northwest tickets can’t be purchased via Cheaptickets at all – the result of a spat over Cheaptickets practice of providing preferential display to carriers with which they have preferred agreements.
Atlantic Coast’s Future
Atlantic Coast has agreed to purchase Airbus aircraft for its new low fare United-free future. Apparently they plan to operate quite differently from their current regional model, offering transcon flights from Dulles.
How are customers supposed to keep this stuff straight?
Continental has added 5 new fare classes, some of which earn full elite mileage and some of which do not (except if booked on Continental’s website for travel in 2004). Are you following all the changes? It’s hard to even behave the way an airline’s marketing department wants you to, when you can’t even understand what it is they want you to do. Or when what they’re asking you to do is contradictory: they want you to book online, but you can’t pick specific fare classes (only broad categories) online.
More Ted
United’s new “low cost carrier” Ted has a published route map and livery.
