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American tells me that there are no further changes to reciprocal lounge access or what’s left of their codesharing relationship at that time. The change this coming March is that neither airline’s frequent flyer members will be able to redeem their miles for travel on the other carrier any longer.
Offers are targeted and you have to activate them to earn miles from them. They don’t want to give you miles you didn’t realize you’d be entitled to.
My account had 29 offers available to me including Olive Garden; ExxonMobile; American Airlines (bonus miles ona $3000+ purchase); Teleflora and others.
Beginning November 1, both United Airlines and American Airlines will follow Delta and restrict access to their clubs to members who are flying the airline or one of its designated partners the same day.
Delta still lets lifetime club members have the access benefit they purchased. United and American have publicly said they will not, adding the new access restriction even for those members. However American told employees they’re reconsidering.
The good news for American Airlines investors, employees, and customers is that – outside of the potential for United to introduce functional inflight internet – American has more potential to improve than any other U.S. airline. And there are clear steps that would make it better.
American just announced details of their Tokyo Haneda flights at the end of last week. They still have an announcement of new routes with Qantas coming up. But right after losing their LATAM partnership they’ve rushed out an announcement of new service to South America, and packaged it with other disparate scheduling moves – perhaps to make it look more robust.
After all, announcing a move by IAG low cost carrier LEVEL makes little sense when that airline isn’t even a partner.
Yesterday Delta announced an offer to assist passengers stranded by American Airlines as their partnership with LATAM breaks up.
Now Delta has flushed their offer announcement down the memory hole.
After the shocking announcement that Delta will buy 20% of Latin America’s largest airline LATAM while that carrier will leave the oneworld alliance and their joint venture with American is off, strange things started happening.
The American Airlines Flagship Lounge Philadelphia project is about to get underway. After much delay, the airline’s Philadelphia Flagship lounge project kicks off Monday. The A-West Admirals Club closes September 30 to start construction on the Flagship lounge, and it’s expected to open in 2020.
LATAM’s Chairman gave an interview in Spanish where he dished on when LATAM started talking to Delta, the timeline for shifting their partnerships, and which one’s they’re going to retain — as well as when they broke up with American Airlines.
At an employee event last week, a flight attendant asked American Airlines CEO Doug Parker about the poor new domestic product – and what she’s supposed to tell customers when they ask her about the small lavatories and about the crammed-in seats.
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 »
