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oneworld member (and American Airlines partner) Finnair has just been announced as a new Alaska Airlines partner.
Finnair flies to Helsinki from Chicago, New York JFK, and Miami and is inaugurating San Francisco service June 1 with three times weekly summer service through September 28.
Dr. David Dao was hardly the first passenger forcibly dragged off a United flight by law enforcement. He wasn’t even the first Asian male dragged off. He wasn’t even the first Asian male whose dragging off of a United flight was caught on video.
We can theorize, of course, whether an older white male in a Make America Great Again hat is less likely to be dragged by law enforcement, or whether United’s post-Dao reaction is primarily the cause of the change since the last Newark – Shanghai self-upgrader removal.
IdeaWorks is out with its 2017 award availability study. I’ve savaged the study in the past. However I have to give the author credit, Jay Sorensen engaged in comments and took some of the criticisms seriously. This year’s study is better.
Many of things I probably knew and yet digging through data still found them surprising.
Reader Arthur‘s parents were in Singapore on an award trip he helped to book using Membership Rewards points transferred to Singapore Airlines Krisflyer. Taxes were paid with his father’s American Express Platinum card.
They flew Atlanta – New York JFK on a Delta economy award and then New York JFK – Frankfurt – Singapore in Singapore Suites. During the trip Arthur’s father had a heart attack.
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Some readers were skeptical that Virgin Atlantic awards for 120,000 miles roundtrip in first class on ANA between the US and Japan were really possible. Here’s how I put the award together and the pitfalls I encountered.
Last summer I wrote about crediting the miles you fly on American Airlines to the Etihad Guest program to still earn one mile per mile flown rather than earning based on the price of your ticket.
I also wrote about crediting miles to Cathay Pacific’s AsiaMiles to accomplish the same thing.
Flight attendant Nadine DuVal shared her thoughts with me, and I asked if I could share them with readers. She gave me explicit permission to use her name, which seemed appropriate because the thoughts are so personal, and I want to make clear she’s speaking for herself only and not her company.
Singapore Airlines is running a fantastic sale on premium economy roundtrips (think domestic first class but with Singapore Airlines food and service) from their US gateways. You can buy premium economy from $1197 roundtrip. And upgrades are remarkably easy.
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