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It seemed notable that American Airlines brought former Northwest Airlines CEO Doug Steenland onto its board. He led Northwest through bankruptcy and into a merger with Delta. American itself is the most vulnerable of the major U.S. airlines.
I had forgotten just what Steenland’s tenure at Northwest was really like though.
People are taking American Airlines international flights in order to buy “basic household items” (e.g. “toilet paper”). Let that sink in for a moment.
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The number of UFO sightings has dropped tremendously since the days of the X-Files since we all have cell phones with cameras and video capability now. We can’t credibly claim to have seen a UFO and not have video of it.
Northwest’s Drive Your Way to 25K promo offers 25,000 bonus miles after registering and completing six (6) car rentals, for three (3) days or more per rental, of a mid-size or larger vehicle between December 10, 2007 and March 10, 2008with National Car Rental. Flyertalk discussion is here.
Continental Airlines inflight currency, the kind that pays for drinks and headsets, is acceptable onboard by Northwest. I never realized that, and apparently many Northwest flight attendants don’t, either. (In addition to selling scrip at checkin kiosks, Continental gives these out to their OnePass Platinum members.) It’s confirmed by Northwest on a Flyertalk thread that the Northwest flight attendant manual is clear on this fact under amenity coupons (section 365.1.4 if feeling particularly confrontational about the subject). A very minor issue, to be sure, but something I never knew for sure. Drink up!
As a result of some prodding on Flyertalk, Northwest has added a more detailed page on how their complimentary domestic upgrade system works.Nothing really new here for the already well-informed, but a good step forward nonetheless.
Via NotiFlyer, a new search engine is launching that’ll pay you miles (up to 1000 a month with your choice of Delta, Alaska, Midwest, Northwest, USAirways or Continental) for using it.Sign up at Zoomiles.com for an invitation when the site launches.I’m willing to try it, though I’m skeptical. Miles are enough to get me to try an alternative to Google, but 1000 miles a month aren’t enough to get me to accept an inferior alternative. So we’ll see.
Northwest is offering 500 bonus miles for booking a roundtrip on their website and paying with Paypal by September 30 for travel through the end of the year. (Hat tip to Free Frequent Flyer Miles.)I do suppose that more payment methods are better, and this in essence gives customers the ability to pay via direct debit from a bank account in addition to a credit card, and they won’t need a Visa-branded debit card in order to do it. my hundh, though, is that the universe for this is rather small. Paypal is a great way for small shops to begin accepting credit cards without much hassle, and to give customers confidence in paying by credit card when the vendor is a relatively unknown. But for larger institutions? I’m not really sure I follow the…
It seems as though Northwest Airlines may not be enforcing the Saturday night stay rule on award tickets in order to be eligible for their standard (“PerkSaver”) mileage pricing. Developing…
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