I give Delta a hard time frequently on this blog. I’m pretty transparent about my travel patterns and choices, and how I go about making those. Delta hasn’t been my choice and I think I’m justified in that. I’m not going to rehash all of the reasons here. Instead I thought I’d take a contrary position for this post, and offer up five good reasons why someone would want to choose Delta and/or Skymiles as their primary air carrier/loyalty program. See what you think, and whether any of these reasons apply to you. You’re a super frequent flyer. American and United both have top tiers at the 100,000 mile level. Delta, like United, requires minimum spend for elite status. If you’re flying more than 125,000 miles a year and spending more than $15,000 on airline…
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Major US Airline Planning to Reduce First Class Legroom Plus an Easy Free $10
News and notes from around the interweb: Runway Girl Network thinks a major US airline is going to reduce seat pitch in domestic first class and introduce similar seats as an international premium economy. Much of the piece sounds like implausible speculation, but one or both of these basic ideas seem plausible. Passenger charged over $1000 for inflight internet. This was on one flight! Bank of America credit and debit card holders get $10 free when they enroll in Visa checkout. Asiana faces a 45 day suspension of their Seoul – San Francisco route over the crash of Asiana 214. $50 off Emirates flights from the US. Me, I’ll just redeem my Alaska Airlines miles for Emirates’ A380 first class suites. You can join the 40,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day…
The Surprising Honesty Behind the US Airways Chef’s Philosophy of Food
Update: (November 12 7:15pm This post was based on an interview published in the Phoenix New Times with an individual identified as in charge of designing onboard premium cabin menus for US Airways. I’ve since learned that he is not currently an employee there. As a result, it’s not fair to assign weight to his comments as indicative of current thinking at the airline. In a surprisingly honest piece, we get “Nathan Brown, Menu Designer for US Airways, on What It Takes to Make Airplane Food” After culinary school, Nathan Brown worked at The Phoenician, at a golf course, and at Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak as their executive sous chef. He creates US Airways premium cabin inflight menus: The job entails crafting four lunch and four dinner menus for the airline; the different menus are…
British Airways Pre-Order Meals, Copying American and Rolling Out Next Week
First discussed over the summer, British Airways pre order meals are rolling out. According to Flyertalk the British Airways pre order meals program begins November 18, taking meals for flights December 1 onward, and the offering will be available in premium economy and not just business and first class. Customers can simply select their meal from 30 days before their flight departs, right up to 24 hours prior to take-off through the ‘manage my booking’ tool on ba.com. The pre-order service will initially be available on flights between Heathrow and Las Vegas, Phoenix, Rio de Janeiro, Vancouver, Dallas and Seattle, with more routes to be added in early 2015. This Works Just Like American Airlines Pre-Order We may not usually think of American Airlines as a global leader, but they remain the only U.S. airline…
Up to 35% Bonus on Purchased Miles.. One of the Few Buy Miles Offers to Consider
Alaska Airlines is offering up to a 35% bonus on purchased miles. Limited Time Offer: up to 35% Bonus Give the gift of miles to yourself and earn up to 35% more in Bonus Miles. For a very limited time, you can earn up to 14,000 extra Bonus Miles when you buy miles by December 20, 2014. Here’s the bonus earning chart: This isn’t all that uncommon an offer. Sometimes it’s 30%, sometimes 35%, and sometimes 40% — as often as not Alaska offers some sort of bonus on purchased miles. In fact, up through mid- last month the offer was up to a 40% bonus. A purchase of 40,000 points earns 54,000 miles at a total cost of $1182.50 or ~ 2.2 cents per mile. Key things to know:
The Insider Scoop on Starwood’s New “Your World Rewards”
The new Starwood Emirates partnership has just gone live: Your World Rewards Details on the Starwood Emirates Partnership A week ago part of the story leaked early when a Starwood website went up with the information unintentionally. What they’re doing with Emirates is very similar to Starwood’s partnership with Delta, Crossover Rewards (minus the upgrades; complimentary domestic or short haul ugprades are very much an American concept). Here are the specifics:. Starwood Gold and Platinum members receive 1 Starpoint per US dollar spent when flying Emirates in (in addition to miles earned for the flight itself). Emirates Skywards Silver, Gold, and Platinum members earn 1 bonus Skywards point per US dollar spent when staying with Starwood (in addition to the SPG points earned for the stay). Starwood Platinums receive elite priority check-in and boarding with…
Claims About Flight Attendants I Wish Were True
A piece in the Daily Mail claimed that there’s only one hotel in Nairobi that they can put crew up in, and that the hotel has so many complaints about raucous flight attendants that they’re at risk of losing their contract. Thus BA is going to have to stop flying to Nairobi unless their flight attendants become less wild. It’s a three year old article that came across my Facebook feed this morning. British Airways bosses fear having to scrap lucrative flights because of mounting complaints about raucous cabin crew parties at luxury hotels. Topless air hostesses and champagne-fuelled pool parties have prompted a flood of protests about wild behaviour. Now BA has warned its captains to control their crews during overnight stops – or the airline may be forced to abandon at least one…
A Totally New Award Chart Coming to a Star Alliance Amex Membership Rewards Partner: The Good and the Bad
Yesterday commenter TJ flagged that ANA is introducing a new zone-based award chart effective April 12. The only problem is that I haven’t found an English-version of the announcement, and have been on travel and time-constrained. We care because ANA: Is a Star Alliance member, so their miles can be used on a variety of partner flights Their website is in general the best for booking Star Alliance awards, showing award space on on all Star partners. They are an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner, so lots of US folks have access to their miles. The current distance-based award chart has some fantastic values. Fortunately both Travel is Free and Points with a Crew are unpacking what the changes mean. Bottom-line is that at the margin there will be some great values that disappear,…
Star Alliance Partners: Who They Are and How to Book Award Tickets With Them
Here’s your guide to booking award tickets on Star Alliance partners using your miles to travel on any of the 27 airlines in Alliance — along with resources for people looking to book these Star Alliance partners, how to find the seats, how to book them, and how many miles they will cost. These are the 27 Star Alliance partners that you can use your miles on. Basic Principles: Here are the three things to understand about your miles before we get started using them to travel the world using Star Alliance partner airlines. You can use miles you have in any Star Alliance program to book travel on any airline that belongs to the Star Alliance. You may have United miles, or Air Canada’s Aeroplan miles, or Asiana Club miles for instance or even…
The Very Best Travel Tips and Tricks in the Past Month
Here are the best travel tips and tricks, the highlights of View from the Wing posts from September. Last month I summarized the very best travel posts from September and the previous month, from August. In July the most useful and interesting developments from June. I also wrote a post with the most useful advice I’ve given, overall. It turns out, surprisingly, that this feature is really popular, at least judging by the emails I get — people that don’t read the blog every day really appreciated the recap and not having to dig through all of the posts to find the most enduring ones. These are some that were my favorites from October. I hope you were happy with some of the posts and got something out of them as well. Award Redemption The…
