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How to Play Marriott’s New Credit Card Deal With Chase and Amex and more...  In This Issue...  How to Play Marriott’s New Credit Card Deal With Chase and Amex  Internal Document Shows When American Airlines Will Have Fast Wifi  BOOK NOW: American Airlines Transatlantic Business Class Award Space  Court Takes Airline NIKI Away from British Airways, Gives it to Race Driver Niki Lauda  Review: Singapore Airlines “The Private Room” First Class Lounge  Do Hotels Make You Prove You’re Eligible for AAA or Corporate Discounts?  For Domestic First Class Meals Quality is Better Than Quantity  More Recent Articles How to Play Marriott’s New Credit Card Deal With Chase and Amex Marriott is following the American Airlines model squeezing the most possible revenue out of a credit card deal threading the needle between two issuers. Until the programs combine and the new deal takes effect here's the lineup of cards that are still available: Continue reading How to Play Marriott’s New Credit Card Deal With Chase and Amex...          • Email to a friend •   Internal Document Shows When American Airlines Will Have Fast Wifi In the middle of last year American started flying its first plane with high speed satellite internet. I lucked into flying the aircraft at the beginning of November, and internet worked though I was surprised it wasn't faster. I know what Gogo's 2ku service can do unthrottled and I wasn't getting anything like those speeds. I flew American's inaugural 737 MAX flight at the end of November and the ViaSat satellite internet didn't work well. Continue reading Internal Document Shows When American Airlines Will Have Fast Wifi...          • Email to a friend •   BOOK NOW: American Airlines Transatlantic Business Class Award Space American Airlines has been uniquely stingy making award space available on its own flights. I value American miles, but really just because I can book awards on partners like Cathay Pacific and Etihad. Over the past few years there have been availability 'dumps'. There will be a day or two or sometimes just a few hours where tons of international business class award space opens up on American flights. We haven't seen that in many months, but are seeing it again right now. Continue reading BOOK NOW: American Airlines Transatlantic Business Class Award Space...          • Email to a friend •   Court Takes Airline NIKI Away from British Airways, Gives it to Race Driver Niki Lauda NIKI was driven into insolvency with the collapse of air berlin and withdrawl of support from Etihad. It was expected that the Austrian carrier would go to Lufthansa (specifically their low cost subsidiary Eurowings), but European competition regulators shut down that possibility. Ultimately British Airways parent IAG was left as the lone remaining company seeking to negotiate a purchase of assets. Continue reading Court Takes Airline NIKI Away from British Airways, Gives it to Race Driver Niki Lauda...          • Email to a friend •   Review: Singapore Airlines “The Private Room” First Class Lounge The highlight of The Private Room is the cooked to order menu, which you can take in the dining room or anywhere else in the lounge you wish. Servers come around to take orders and see if there's anything they can get for you to drink as well. Service is a plus in the lounge. Continue reading Review: Singapore Airlines “The Private Room” First Class Lounge...          • Email to a friend •   Do Hotels Make You Prove You’re Eligible for AAA or Corporate Discounts? Five years ago a couple of commenters noted being asked to show their AAA card at hotel check-in when staying on a AAA rate. I have never seen this happen myself. Later that year when AAA sent me a renewal notice with the card I asked readers whether I should just pocket that to show 'just in case' or actually pay for the membership, universally the sentiment was 'you use the discount you pay for the membership.' Continue reading Do Hotels Make You Prove You’re Eligible for AAA or Corporate Discounts?...          • Email to a friend •   For Domestic First Class Meals Quality is Better Than Quantity Years ago there was a story about former American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall having olives removed from first class salads, saving $40,000 a year. Small savings add up across all an airline's flights and passengers. So carriers are often very careful about their pennies in catering. In the spring of 2001 United replaced steak at lunch with gourmet cheeseburgers. Today's inflight burgers on domestic airlines are much smaller and I find with lower quality meal. They keep figuring out ways to push the savings envelope farther. Continue reading For Domestic First Class Meals Quality is Better Than Quantity...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles 9 Lesser Known Benefits of the Chase Sapphire Reserve Card Free Hilton Status and a $4.3 Million Hotel Stay Hurry: Get Suites for the Price of a Regular Room Redemption from Hilton       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.