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Vietnam Airlines announced a status match offer. They’re partners with Delta Air Lines, and they’re a SkyTeam member, plus they have a number of other partnerships that can offer elite recognition so this will be reasonably interesting for many.
The head of the largest flight attendants union, Sara Nelson, says you should never press the flight attendant call button for a drink, and even tried to get the government to ban alcohol on planes which would reduce the amount of service her members would have to provide.
This is 100% wrong.
September 1 Rent Day is a milestone. It’s the last one where you can earn double points on the Bilt Mastercard up to 10,000 points. It’s also the last one where tax payments will count towards the bonus. Starting with October 1 Rent Day the bonus will be capped at 1,000 additional points, and tax payments don’t count.
I’ve found Rent Day to be highly lucrative, and I’ve often maxed out this bonus.
Hawaiian’s own program isn’t great overall, but offers pretty good award availability on its own flights and uniquely two levels of upgrade inventory so that being willing to spend extra miles means that more often than not it’s possible to confirm an upgrade.
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Maestro Pizza in the Miami airport is going viral for being a terrible circle of regret rather than anything resembling food.
Not only are people generating unearned status for club lounge access (and lounges are far nicer in Asia) and other benefits, but Bonvoy elites no longer have an incentive to stay to requalifying for status since they can just buy it cheap. They can even merge the new account they create for this with their existing one.
Marriott sees they’re getting plenty of new signups through Fliggy, when they’re getting plenty of short-term elites – and the same members opening new accounts over and over, it seems.
Whenever an airline discounts awards on a route, it’s worth checking to see whether availability is really good. Usually a discount corresponds to a flight being lightly booked.
Similarly, when a flight is new it often takes awhile to book up, and award space can be good. Or an airline might initially load inventory for a new flight with plenty of space.
Airline crew often work two jobs which runs counter to rest rules meant to limit their airline work to ensure they’re fresh on board.
One flight attendant working the Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 flight where a door plug blew out in January had started work more than 9 hours prior to the flight.
The government now has until August 16th to conclude its review. An additional day means those involved in the negotiations think they’re close – close enough that a deal is possible, and without much more time.
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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 »
