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Monday, March 26, 2018

Chase Improves Travel Booking Engine, Get Better Value For Your Points Buying Flights and more...

When you use your Chase card to buy travel directly -- instead of transferring points to miles -- you have the Ultimate Rewards online portal and you have phone reps. There are some things you cannot do online, like book Southwest Airlines flights. ...

 

Chase Improves Travel Booking Engine, Get Better Value For Your Points Buying Flights and more...



Chase Improves Travel Booking Engine, Get Better Value For Your Points Buying Flights

When you use your Chase card to buy travel directly -- instead of transferring points to miles -- you have the Ultimate Rewards online portal and you have phone reps. There are some things you cannot do online, like book Southwest Airlines flights. However there's a new thing you can do online...

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No Discretion: American’s CEO Wants Pilots to Do What They’re Told and Leave Exactly On Time

A DFW-based captain asked American Airlines CEO Doug Parker about 'D0'. He said the airline's emphasize on exactly on-time departures, and the processes around questioning decisions and following up when they miss exact on-time departures "feels punitive on all the people."

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British Airways Will Go Revenue-Based, Introduce Redemptions for All Charges at Low Value

British Airways Executive Club will go more revenue-based for mileage-earning and redemption. Here they'll copy Lufthansa, Alitalia, and Air France.

On the earning side that's almost meaningless, it's already one of the original mostly-revenue based programs with both miles earned based on fare class and elite tier points based on fare as well. This would just tie revenue and miles more directly, a change in technology. On the redemption side though this is bad for members.

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Uber Pulls Out of Southeast Asia, Employees Given 2 Hours to Run

The bottom line for travelers in that the Uber app will not work in the region, you're more or less stuck downloading Grab or taking a taxi (please don't tell me about this or that local alternative).

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More Cuts Coming to United Polaris May 1

A week ago I asked whether we were beginning to see the end of 'Polaris' at United, ditching their attempt to offer a superior business class product.

The soft product is getting cut back. Reportedly United President Scott Kirby "doesn't believe in Polaris and he knows it hasn't created a [fare] premium." Just a week ago I predicted 'death by 1000 cuts.' We're already starting the countdown.

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American Airlines CEO: Boeing 767s are Bad Customer Experience and Need to Be “Retired Sooner”

During Thursday's American Airlines employee 'crew news' question and answer session a Lima-based flight attendant asked about the old Boeing 757s and 767s American flies down there.

She says the one thing "that is sad for me" is that when she tells people she's a flight attendant their interest is piqued, but then when she says she works for American "they're like really?"

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American Airlines Has an A350 Simulator — And You’ll Never Guess Whose Pilots Use It

American held a Crew News session with employees on Thursday and a first officer asked about new aircraft orders and the extent that manufacturers consult with American on what they want to see as they develop new plane types. As an aside he asked about American's A350 simulator and whether it might be possible to rent time in it.

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Delta Dives Back in Against the NRA, Charters Planes to Send Kids to Protest Guns

They donated charter flights to bring students to a gun protest in DC.

So much for their 'neutral status' in the gun debate. I don't think they need to stay neutral, I just don't think they can have it both ways.

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