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Airlines that offer a strong ground experience usually do so in their home markets, and sometimes to a lesser extent in a few key other markets, but rarely in outstations. And rarely in the United States.
But Cathay Pacific’s new Senior Vice President for North America has a charge to bring the experience here up to the standards of Asia. We can expect changes in San Francisco, then Vancouver, and perhaps New York.
There are checking account offers of over 20,000 and even 50,000 miles and investment accounts offering 50,000 miles as well. Plus there are ways to earn miles from your checking account month after month.
Award Wallet has opened up Beta of their redesigned and re-engineered website. Here’s the new look and new features they’ll be offering.
Citibank is offering a bonus on transfers from ThankYou Rewards to Hilton HHonors through January 6. The good news is that they’re aggressive, they are running two transfer bonuses at the same time. However you shouldn’t be tempted by this offer. ThankYou points are just too good to transfer to Hilton.
Between now and March American Airlines award availability between the US and Paris is very good. The absolute best availability appears to be from New York and Philadephia, although there is also some space from Miami, and Dallas.
Monday and Tuesdays are the absolute best, there are days with 7 or more business class award (and upgrade) seats available. But in the midst of winter you’ll see strong availability across several days of the week.
Spirit Airlines copied Southeast Asian low cost carrier Scoot’s branding.
Now another Southeast Asian low cost carrier is aping Spirit’s advertising.
ANA is making changes to its award chart effective October 15. Historically ANA has given reasonable notice of award chart changes, so this surprises me to see.
This is especially relevant because ANA is a Star Alliance partner, and American Express Membership Rewards and Starwood points transfer to ANA’s miles.
Long haul airlines often have the best reputations. We slog through hundreds of short domestic segments on US carriers, and don’t think much of them. Then we board airlines whose specialty is flying great distances and they do tend to do well on those sectors.
Nouriel Roubini tweeteed that 2013 economics Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller and his wife were involuntarily denied boarding on United Express flight from Denver to Aspen.
Shiller’s wife thinks United has the economics of involuntary denied boarding all wrong. But are there important things the Shillers are missing?
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 »
