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On a Thursday Minneapolis – San Jose flight on Delta two passengers became sick and threw up. And that caused five other passengers around them to throw up, too. Passengers reported the flight was so bumpy it felt like a boat.
That was just the start.
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I reached out to Delta and they confirmed that this is “No[t a] glitch on the award pricing” so we can apparently rely on it, until it changes again.
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Yesterday Delta flight DL673, the daily Boeing 757 from Atlanta to Quito, Ecuador with 199 passengers onboard, caught fire after touch down.
The plane had departed Atlanta but turned around due to a mechanical problem.
Air France KLM Flying Blue is a transfer partner of all the major bank transferrable points currencies.
Air France KLM gives members of their program access to far more business class award seats on Air France than partners like Delta and Alaska have access to.
Delta made some changes to the elite qualifying miles you earn flying Aeromexico effective for travel April 1 onward. And they made the change retroactive for customers who had already purchased tickets for future travel.
However if you know the secret handshake you can get them to honor the miles that were promised at the time of purchase.
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Delta wants to incentivize you to earn their currency with more of their partners. They get paid by those partners for their miles.
But they want to be careful not to be too generous and give you extra miles for the things you’d do already. So they have a new promotion that’s double miles through May 31 for partner activity you didn’t earn SkyMiles for in 2017.
They donated charter flights to bring students to a gun protest in DC.
So much for their ‘neutral status’ in the gun debate. I don’t think they need to stay neutral, I just don’t think they can have it both ways.
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 »
