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Marriott announced today that they have a new partnership to allow mileage earning with and points transfers to Korean Air SKYPASS.
This is fantastic on many levels. Hopefully adding partners and features of Starwood Preferred Guest into Marriott Rewards will continue because the merger remains likely to close.
A lot of American AAdvantage members miss transatlantic award space on oneworld partner Iberia, because Iberia awards don’t appear on American’s website.
Iberia flies between Boston, New York JFK, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Madrid. And award space booked far in advance is very good in business class right now.
Iberia has a good business class product — fully flat with all aisle access, but with seats staggered for density.
Last fall I spoke with then-AAdvantage President Suzanne Rubin and suggested that with their higher award pricing (since March 22), they could loosen their routing rules somewhat. She indicated they were looking at that.
And it appears they’ve started to because back in April they started to allow flying Cathay Pacific or American Airlines to Hong Kong, and travel beyond to India and the surrounding region on Cathay Pacific, as a single award — instead of requiring you to fly via the Atlantic.
Now they’ve loosened this further.
United partner and Star Alliance member Austrian Airlines has opened the flood gates with business class award space between North America and their hub in Vienna.
In fact there are 8 or more business class seats available on most flights from a variety of cities right now! (There’s coach space, also.)
American Airlines joined Delta and United in awarding miles for flights based on the cost of a ticket rather than the distance you fly.
Your cheap tickets don’t get you very much when you fly anymore. Even your more expensive tickets come out behind on long distance flights. However you can still earn 1 mile per mile flown on all of your American Airlines flights. Here’s how:
With loyalty programs regularly offering less value for their points, I’m putting together this series with background, tips, and tricks for frequent flyer programs programs whose points can be very useful to you and that you can earn easily by transferring in from bank rewards currencies.
Here are 20 things a US-based frequent flyer should know about the Marriott program:
American Airlines fees for overweight bags can be as much as $450 between the US and Asia.
The standard weight limit is 50 pounds. Between 51 and 70 pounds is $100 per bag. But once you get over 70 pounds things get really expensive.
Delta’s IT systems went down overnight. Delta couldn’t send out flights that had boarded presumably because they couldn’t push flight plans or calculate required fuel. They couldn’t check passengers in for new flights. Customer service lines started snaking around airports.
IT staff everywhere no doubt had their emergency phones ringing and those on site furiously turned the power off and on hoping that a reboot would fix things.
Deep discount transatlantic fares haven’t been limited to markets where there’s ultra low cost competition from Norwegian or from Wow Air.
And there have been great fare sales not just to Europe but also to Asia and the Pacific.
Here are 5 new deep discount international fare sales just today:
41 year old Alexander Pieter Cirk flew from Holland to Changsha, China to meet his online girlfriend ‘Zhang’ but she never showed.
She says she thought he was joking when he sent her a photo of tickets to come visit her. And besides, she was having plastic surgery the day he arrived and had “turned off her phone.”
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
