The Airbus A380 is popular with customers for its spaciousness, although airlines are just now starting to really squeeze passengers into it like never before. However it's never been popular with very many airlines. Conceived of as a plane for ...

Why Emirates Walked Away From Buying 36 More A380s – Possibly Sealing the Plane’s Fate and more...  In This Issue...  Why Emirates Walked Away From Buying 36 More A380s – Possibly Sealing the Plane’s Fate  Delta Introducing Elite Upgrades on Domestic Lie Flat Business Class Routes  A Loophole in American’s 24 Hour Cancel Rule That Can Bite You  145% Bonus Buying Star Alliance Avianca LifeMiles – 1.35 Cents a Mile One Week Only  6 Ideas for Where to Spend Your Marriott Points  Would You Fly 1700 Miles in a Regional Jet?  Another 1000 Easy Free Marriott Points, Act Fast  The 10 Best Cards from Chase and How to Get Them  More Recent Articles Why Emirates Walked Away From Buying 36 More A380s – Possibly Sealing the Plane’s Fate The Airbus A380 is popular with customers for its spaciousness, although airlines are just now starting to really squeeze passengers into it like never before. However it's never been popular with very many airlines. Conceived of as a plane for ferrying large numbers of people between major cities, flying between the largest slot constrained airports where passengers might connect onward, the industry has gone in another direction entirely: point-to-point flying with smaller more fuel efficient jets that bypass additional connections entirely. Continue reading Why Emirates Walked Away From Buying 36 More A380s – Possibly Sealing the Plane’s Fate...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Introducing Elite Upgrades on Domestic Lie Flat Business Class Routes With Delta introducing lie flat premium cabin seats on New York JFK – Seattle and New York JFK – San Diego effective April 1 and New York JFK – Las Vegas May 1 current rules are that those flights will not be eligible for elite upgrades. (They're getting the planes by flying domestic equipment transatlantic from New York to Ponta Delgada, Portugal; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Shannon, Ireland.) However Delta intends to introduce day of departure elite upgrades for domestic flights with lie flat business class marketed as 'Delta One' effective April 1. That will include New York JFK - Los Angeles and San Francisco as well. Continue reading Delta Introducing Elite Upgrades on Domestic Lie Flat Business Class Routes...          • Email to a friend •   A Loophole in American’s 24 Hour Cancel Rule That Can Bite You There's a loophole American uses to get out of honoring 24 hour ticket cancellations/refunds in certain cases. If you use credit from a previous cancelled ticket to pay for your reservation American tells me that they will not honor 24 hour cancel/refunds. They claim that when you pay for a new reservation using the residual from a cancelled ticket (whether partial or full payment) then it "isn't a new reservation" so DOT rules under 14 CFR 374 don't apply. Even for cancellations made less than 15 minutes after purchase, and for reservations that were newly created. Continue reading A Loophole in American’s 24 Hour Cancel Rule That Can Bite You...          • Email to a friend •   145% Bonus Buying Star Alliance Avianca LifeMiles – 1.35 Cents a Mile One Week Only Star Alliance member Avianca's LifeMiles program is selling miles with a 145% bonus (so 1.35 cents apiece) through November 27. This time it's not a tiered offer, it's a straight-up bonus. Continue reading 145% Bonus Buying Star Alliance Avianca LifeMiles – 1.35 Cents a Mile One Week Only...          • Email to a friend •   6 Ideas for Where to Spend Your Marriott Points It can make sense to get a Marriott card for the bonus. And to keep the card for the annual free night. Here are 6 great Marriott hotels where you can spend your points: Continue reading 6 Ideas for Where to Spend Your Marriott Points...          • Email to a friend •   Would You Fly 1700 Miles in a Regional Jet? United Airlines is introducing a number of new regional carrier routes. One that really stuck out to me though is Chicago – Fresno season service because of the sheer length of the flight. It clocks in at 1731 miles! Continue reading Would You Fly 1700 Miles in a Regional Jet?...          • Email to a friend •   Another 1000 Easy Free Marriott Points, Act Fast Marriott will give you 1000 points for answering a simple question on Twitter. And here's the answer. Continue reading Another 1000 Easy Free Marriott Points, Act Fast...          • Email to a friend •   The 10 Best Cards from Chase and How to Get Them I frequently offer appraisals of the very best cards, and the very best signup bonuses, but in doing so only offer one or two cards per bank. That means I don’t get down further — what card should you get next, or if you aren’t going to get the one I prefer for whatever reason? And the ‘best’ Chase cards have changed over the past several months since I last looked at their new products and limited-time signup bonuses. There’s no question in my mind that the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is the best rewards card for getting started in miles and points. It’s been the best overall solution for frequent travelers for 6 years. Sapphire Reserve had a bigger bonus (not anymore), likely a bigger credit requirement as a Visa Signature though, and... Continue Reading »          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Family Tried to Sneak Dead Man Through Security and Prison For Passengers Who Clap on Landing New Security Procedures for Flying to the U.S. are Stupid       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.