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Air Force One’s New $24 Million Refrigerators and an AAdvantage Award Booking Trick and more...  In This Issue...  Air Force One’s New $24 Million Refrigerators and an AAdvantage Award Booking Trick  IHG PointBreaks Changing, Some ‘Discounted’ Hotels Will Cost 3x As Much  Doug Parker Dishes the Inside Story of How Delta Ended Its Interline Agreement With American – And Then Asked For It Back  6 Reasons to Get the Marriott Visa Right Now  How to Be Strategic in Your Credit Card Applications  More Recent Articles Air Force One’s New $24 Million Refrigerators and an AAdvantage Award Booking Trick 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 Air Force One’s New $24 Million Refrigerators and an AAdvantage Award Booking Trick...          • Email to a friend •   IHG PointBreaks Changing, Some ‘Discounted’ Hotels Will Cost 3x As Much IHG Rewards Club has been offering discounted hotel night redemptions for just 5000 points per night for more than a decade. At the beginning there were some high value hotels included in the discount properties list. Over time there have been fewer and fewer premium hotels. The 'good ones' are almost always swept up and disappear from the list within a couple of days. These deals have been so good that in China people were automating PointBreaks bookings and reselling them. Continue reading IHG PointBreaks Changing, Some ‘Discounted’ Hotels Will Cost 3x As Much...          • Email to a friend •   Doug Parker Dishes the Inside Story of How Delta Ended Its Interline Agreement With American – And Then Asked For It Back After American's earnings calls the company's executives meet with employees and take their questions. One of the questions was about the restoration of the most important element of an interline agreement between American and Delta, the ability for each airline to put their passengers into empty seats on the other carrier during irregular operations. And Doug Parker, American's CEO, wound up and took a swing at Delta... Continue reading Doug Parker Dishes the Inside Story of How Delta Ended Its Interline Agreement With American – And Then Asked For It Back...          • Email to a friend •   6 Reasons to Get the Marriott Visa Right Now With lots of new cards and offers in the market it's easy to lose track of some of the basics, and with Marriott and Starwood looking towards a merged single loyalty program it's worth paying attention to the opportunities provided by their points, and through arbitraging the Starwood program now that they're linked. Continue reading 6 Reasons to Get the Marriott Visa Right Now...          • Email to a friend •   How to Be Strategic in Your Credit Card Applications I'm incredibly fortunate to have earned millions of miles with credit cards. The products and bank issuer policies — and best strategies — are constantly changing. If you want to approach your credit card applications strategically — not just get the best cards, but in the right order, here's my suggestions. Continue reading How to Be Strategic in Your Credit Card Applications...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles American CEO Doug Parker: Front Line Employees Don't Understand Strategy of the Company As Alaska Completes Their Merger, Expect Basic Economy & Other Unfriendly Changes If There's an Empty Main Cabin Extra Seat on American, Take It, It's Free British Airways Bed Bug Problem Worse Than We Thought and American Tracks Compensation Abusers       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.