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The 11 Best Cards from Chase and How to Get Them and more...  In This Issue...  The 11 Best Cards from Chase and How to Get Them  Another Hit From the Marriott-Starwood Merger and Saving the A380 Program Gets Real  Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia on One of the World’s Best Airlines  Buy Miles at 1.47 Cents Apiece from Star Alliance Program LifeMiles  Delta Employee Caught on Video Cursing at Customer  United Pilot Takes Pictures of the Engine, Tells Air Traffic Control “Roll the Fire Trucks”  Delta Says They Want to Be the Launch Customer For the Boeing 797. Should We Believe Them?  Alaska Airlines Eliminates Close-in Redemptions on Cathay Pacific and JAL  Wide Open Business Class Award Space Cathay Pacific New York – Asia  Woman Puts Herself Through X-Ray Machine to Make Her Sure Bags Aren’t Stolen The 11 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. Your strategy for each is influenced by '5/24' and what that means for getting approved for new accounts. Continue reading The 11 Best Cards from Chase and How to Get Them...          • Email to a friend •   Another Hit From the Marriott-Starwood Merger and Saving the A380 Program Gets Real 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 Another Hit From the Marriott-Starwood Merger and Saving the A380 Program Gets Real...          • Email to a friend •   Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia on One of the World’s Best Airlines ANA first class availability, booked far in advance, is outstanding right now. And it's accessible using miles from a variety of programs -- in the Star Alliance and through other airline partnerships as well. They offer one of the best and most consistent first class products in the world. It's not as flashy as Emirates or Etihad, but the service and food are fantastic. Continue reading Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia on One of the World’s Best Airlines...          • Email to a friend •   Buy Miles at 1.47 Cents Apiece from Star Alliance Program LifeMiles Star Alliance member Avianca LifeMiles is selling miles with up to a 125% bonus. They bonus miles purchases very frequently. Sometimes selling miles for even less than the 1.47 cents apiece under this deal, for instance at the end of November they were selling at 1.35 miles apiece. Continue reading Buy Miles at 1.47 Cents Apiece from Star Alliance Program LifeMiles...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Employee Caught on Video Cursing at Customer Delta is apologizing after one of their employees in Portland was caught on video telling a customer, "You can take my f'ing picture if you want to, a-hole." They offered the passenger a $200 voucher. They also delivered his luggage. And they report that the employee "has been suspended." Continue reading Delta Employee Caught on Video Cursing at Customer...          • Email to a friend •   United Pilot Takes Pictures of the Engine, Tells Air Traffic Control “Roll the Fire Trucks” United flight UA1175 from San Francisco to Honolulu today declared an emergency around 30 minutes prior to arrival. The aircraft appeared to lose an engine cowling. Continue reading United Pilot Takes Pictures of the Engine, Tells Air Traffic Control “Roll the Fire Trucks”...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Says They Want to Be the Launch Customer For the Boeing 797. Should We Believe Them? Boeing has talked about a possible new "middle of the market" jet, something between the largest 737 and the new smaller 787 widebodies, since at least 2003. This plane would be a replacement for the Boeing 757. It's unofficially dubbed the '797' and is expected to seat 220 - 270 passengers and fly up to 5,200 nautical miles. Continue reading Delta Says They Want to Be the Launch Customer For the Boeing 797. Should We Believe Them?...          • Email to a friend •   Alaska Airlines Eliminates Close-in Redemptions on Cathay Pacific and JAL Alaska Airlines has a fantastic award chart compared to many other airlines for premium class travel to Asia. And they have great partners, though they don't always seem to have as much access to Cathay Pacific award space as other airlines do. Now Cathay Pacific -- and JAL -- booking is about to get worse because Alaska will no longer allow reservations within 3 days of travel. Continue reading Alaska Airlines Eliminates Close-in Redemptions on Cathay Pacific and JAL...          • Email to a friend •   Wide Open Business Class Award Space Cathay Pacific New York – Asia Business class awards on Cathay Pacific between New York JFK and Hong Kong are wide open starting in August and running through end of schedule. Space beyond Hong Kong is generally very nicely available. Now's the time to lock in those business class awards to Asia for later in the year. Continue reading Wide Open Business Class Award Space Cathay Pacific New York – Asia...          • Email to a friend •   Woman Puts Herself Through X-Ray Machine to Make Her Sure Bags Aren’t Stolen One of the strangest things about the screening process to me is that at most airports when a passenger alarms or is flagged for random additional testing the whole line stops. It would be far more efficient to divert the passenger and continue moving the line through. Sometimes going through the checkpoint I'm stuck waiting to get screened while my bags have already gone through. I never want to be separated from my bags where I cannot see my bags. Continue reading Woman Puts Herself Through X-Ray Machine to Make Her Sure Bags Aren’t Stolen...          • Email to a friend •       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." 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