The Surprising Ways People Are Using Austin As A Connecting City

by Gary Leff

Jun 14 2022

While American Airlines has grown tremendously in Austin – quadrupling destinations and doubling flights – Southwest remains the largest carrier in the market by a wide margin. In fact it carries an even larger share of Austin traffic than it did three years ago, before the pandemic.

United and Delta have shrunk a bit. So has JetBlue. Allegiant has gown, while Spirit and Frontier have shrunk. Few would have guessed that of Delta, which still calls Austin a focus city.

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Get A Credit Score Bump For Paying Rent On Time

by Gary Leff

Jun 14 2022

Bilt Rewards – even if you don’t have their credit card, which lets you earn points for paying rent – has publicly launched the option for residents of participating buildings to have their on-time rent payments reported to their credit. This is expected to generate an average credit score increase of 60 points for those who opt in.

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Interest In International Travel Skyrocketing Now That Testing Requirements Lifted

by Gary Leff

Jun 14 2022

In the first 72 hours since the announcement that the U.S. requirement for a negative Covid-19 test to fly to the country would end United Airlines reported 2.4 million searches for international travel on its website.

To be clear, people still should not travel if they’re sick. But the testing requirement wasn’t just keeping people from traveling when sick. It was keeping them from travel because of hassle and uncertainty.

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Stack 1000 Bonus AAdvantage Miles On Top Of Hyatt Points And Miles At 156 U.S. Hotels

by Gary Leff

Jun 13 2022

You can earn 1000 bonus American AAdvantage miles per stay of two nights or more across 10 U.S. cities between July 5 and September 5, 2022.

This isn’t choosing ‘miles or points’ this is on top of the Hyatt points you’ll earn And it stacks on top of Hyatt’s existing partnership with American where American elites earn 1 AAdvantage mile per dollar spent with Hyatt and Hyatt elites earn 1 Hyatt point per dollar spent on American flights

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Choice Hotels Buying Radisson, Here’s What It Means For Members

by Gary Leff

Radisson Red Minneapolis - Oui Bar and Kitchen
Jun 13 2022

With 624 hotels in total, this is just over $1 million per property (abstracting away from real estate). That actually seems low for the business, even though it includes few hard assets.

This seems like a real miss for Hyatt. Though the hotels are more downmarket than Hyatts overall, it would have given them some reach outside of the larger metro areas in the U.S. where they’re strong.

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