Delta Is Literally Paying People In Seattle To Fly

Mar 20 2021

Alaska Airlines and Delta were friends, turned frenemies, turned competitors as Alaska resisted Delta’s entreaties to become its vassal and Delta responded by building its own hub in Seattle. Delta hasn’t operated as significant a Seattle operation as it has middle of the country hubs during the pandemic, but the rivalry is heating up again between the two.

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Customer Forgets To Cancel Spirit’s $9 Fare Club And Can’t Get A Refund – Or Even The Membership

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Mar 19 2021

There aren’t too many $9 fares anymore, and the program has recently been rebranded the Spirit Saver$ Club.

You can definitely make your money back on the program, especially traveling with family, but there are no refunds on membership. Not even when you cancel the same day the annual fee is charged. But a cancelled membership can’t take advantage of its benefits.

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Will Hyatt’s New Multi-Brand Las Vegas Complex Jeopardize Its MGM Partnership?

Mar 19 2021

The old Rio Las Vegas will become several Hyatt-branded properties with Hyatt Regency the first to come online, expected in 2023. Full service Hyatts in Las Vegas will be something new, but Hyatt isn’t telling us what other brands they’ll have yet and none of this will happen for several years. So that’s only of limited interest today.

What’s more intriguing I think is what this means for Hyatt’s MGM M life Rewards partnership.

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Brawl Ensues When Anti-Maskers Get Kicked Off Flight In Fort Lauderdale

Mar 19 2021

Two women were removed from an American Airlines flight from Fort Lauderdale to Chicago. You can see them walking away from the gate, with masks covering their mouths but not their noses. They’re escorted by an officer. Despite the presence of law enforcement, one of the women has words with a passenger waiting in the gate area – and it turns into a brawl, with the officer trying to stop the fight by grabbing at the shirt of one of the women.

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JetBlue Could Bail On Its Credit Card Issuer Again, Drop Barclays For Goldman Sachs

Mar 18 2021

JetBlue moved over from American Express to Barclays as issuer of its co-brand credit card in 2016. There’s probably a seven year deal in place expiring late in 2023. But JetBlue is already shopping their co-brand business to Goldman Sachs as they renegotiate with Barclays on an extension.

We rarely see large loyalty programs change issuers. It’s much more likely to see smaller brands with less lucrative products changing hands, which is why JetBlue could move again after just seven years.

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