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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Leverage Little Known Hotel Rules: Combine Points From Friends & Family in Your Account and more...

Starwood lets you transfer points free to someone else's account but your account and theirs must be registered with the same home mailing address. It's actually even easier with Hilton and Hyatt. That means you can get friends and family to sign up for ...

 

Leverage Little Known Hotel Rules: Combine Points From Friends & Family in Your Account and more...



Leverage Little Known Hotel Rules: Combine Points From Friends & Family in Your Account

Starwood lets you transfer points free to someone else's account but your account and theirs must be registered with the same home mailing address. It's actually even easier with Hilton and Hyatt.

That means you can get friends and family to sign up for cards and give the points to you. In fact they can sign up for cards you may not be able to get yourself.

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Head of New York Airports Blames Airlines for Sucking and New United Ice Cream Bowls

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.

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jetBlue Considering Basic Economy, Almost Nowhere Left to Run

It's a tough industry to stand alone in, and pressure from financial analysts is fierce. Alaska, completing its merger with Virgin America, now says they're considering Basic Economy too.

Now jetBlue is looking at Basic Economy, too. As reported by Airline Weekly they revealed in a presentation at a Barclays event in Miami.

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Hilton Diamond Extension Offer Live and Phil Collins Detained in Rio

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.

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American and Qantas Submitted Request to DOT Today to Collude on Schedules, Pricing

Two years ago American Airlines and Qantas announced an expanded joint venture. American was launching Sydney and Auckland service, Qantas Sydney - San Francisco. And they indicated there would be more new routes in the offing as a result of the partnership.

The Obama administration's Department of Transportation indicated they were going to reject anti-trust immunity for the revenue-sharing partnership. They said they didn't believe there would be greater growth in service compared to what they expected to happen anyway which was a novel approach. Qantas and American withdrew their application rather than having it rejected.

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Olympic Gold Medal Curler Got Upgraded on Delta After All – Watch the Champagne Toast

Delta's fairly stock social media reply to the gold medallist US olympic curlers has gotten a lot of play. The athletes tweeted hoping for an upgrade coming home from Seoul, and were roundly told no.

Except it turns out - despite all the media surrounding Delta's initial response - that there was a celebration at the gate, a champagne toast onboard, and one of the medalists did wind up sitting up front.

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Passenger Couldn’t Face Flying United, Pops Slide and Flees During Boarding at Newark

A passenger onboard United's flight UA1640 from Newark to Tampa popped the emergency slide and went down and off the aircraft last night while they were still at the gate.

25-year-old Troy Fattun went to the back of the plane while boarding was still underway, opened the exit door, and went for it.

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