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8 Of the Best Ways to Use Chase Ultimate Rewards and more...  In This Issue...  8 Of the Best Ways to Use Chase Ultimate Rewards  Investors Don’t Seem to Like United’s Plan to Grow the Airline  Delta Came Back to American Hat in Hand to Be Able to Re-accommodate Customers  Uber CEO: Tip More to Get a Better Rating  Delta Eats Crow, Partially Restores Interline Agreement With American Airlines  United’s President Just Gave an Economics Lecture to Investors About the Airline’s Future  Changes Coming to United Basic Economy Like Paid Seat Assignments and Buy Ups  Amazing Fare: Many US Cities to New Zealand From Just $239 Roundtrip February through June  Amex Bouncing Back from Costco, Southwest Airlifts Puppies  More Recent Articles 8 Of the Best Ways to Use Chase Ultimate Rewards You can use points to book paid travel. Depending on which of these cards you have the points are worth up to 1.5 cents apiece. However the real leverage comes from transferring points to miles. Here are some of my favorite things you can do with Chase points. Continue reading 8 Of the Best Ways to Use Chase Ultimate Rewards...          • Email to a friend •   Investors Don’t Seem to Like United’s Plan to Grow the Airline Last night United Airlines President Scott Kirby gave an extended airline economics lecture to investors, explaining how they make more money by building up their hubs. As a result they're projecting to grow capacity 4% - 6% in 2018 -- and continue growing at a similar clip through 2020. Continue reading Investors Don’t Seem to Like United’s Plan to Grow the Airline...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Came Back to American Hat in Hand to Be Able to Re-accommodate Customers This morning we learned that Delta and American re-started their interline agreement allowing each airline to book seats on the other carrier in the event of irregular operations. It's limited to this re-accommodation function, but that's what customers primarily care about and it's the key item Delta refused to allow in September 2015. Here's how that happened. Continue reading Delta Came Back to American Hat in Hand to Be Able to Re-accommodate Customers...          • Email to a friend •   Uber CEO: Tip More to Get a Better Rating Until now Uber has insisted that your decision to tip - and how much - cannot affect the rating you're given by drivers. Drivers have to rate you first before they know what tip decision you've made. Tipping wasn't even a part of Uber until recently. The idea was 'the price is the price' and indeed at the outset they contended that the tip was included. However in their quest to redeem their image, in part by accommodating drivers, Uber added tipping inside the app. At least Uber's tipping has become cashless. Continue reading Uber CEO: Tip More to Get a Better Rating...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Eats Crow, Partially Restores Interline Agreement With American Airlines Two years ago Delta and American eliminated their interline agreement the most basic level of airline cooperation. That's the agreement necessary to allow flights on the two airlines to exist on the same time, and that's necessary for one airline to put its distressed passengers on the other carrier -- without literally walking over with a credit card to buy a passenger a ticket. Continue reading Delta Eats Crow, Partially Restores Interline Agreement With American Airlines...          • Email to a friend •   United’s President Just Gave an Economics Lecture to Investors About the Airline’s Future As a general matter I think any airline whose operations are being run by Scott Kirby is going to get worse not better for customers in terms of passenger experience. At the same time there's no one in the industry I'd rather listen to because he's earnest and thoughtful and lays out more clearly than anyone else his belief about how his business, and the broader industry, works. He walked through airline economics, United's positioning, and marginal analysis with a primary goal of convincing investors it is okay for United to grow. Continue reading United’s President Just Gave an Economics Lecture to Investors About the Airline’s Future...          • Email to a friend •   Changes Coming to United Basic Economy Like Paid Seat Assignments and Buy Ups The point of 'Basic Economy' fares -- which don't let you assign seats in advance, upgrade, or make changes for a fee, and at United and American don't allow you to bring a full-sized carry on onto the plane -- is to make the travel experience so unpleasant you don't want the fare, and will spend more to avoid the restrictions. The risk is that customers don't spend more with the airline offering the inferior Basic Economy product, but instead book a different airline instead (or even just decide not to travel). That's what happened when United launched their basic economy product. They lost business. And they lost about a hundred million dollars. Continue reading Changes Coming to United Basic Economy Like Paid Seat Assignments and Buy Ups...          • Email to a friend •   Amazing Fare: Many US Cities to New Zealand From Just $239 Roundtrip February through June Available fares from Miami, New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas Fort-Worth, Charlotte, New York, Denver, Nashville, Chicago O'Hare, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, Portland, Seattle, and Detroit. Continue reading Amazing Fare: Many US Cities to New Zealand From Just $239 Roundtrip February through June...          • Email to a friend •   Amex Bouncing Back from Costco, Southwest Airlifts Puppies A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips. Continue reading Amex Bouncing Back from Costco, Southwest Airlifts Puppies...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles How to Play Marriott's New Credit Card Deal With Chase and Amex       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.