One of the great benefits of many premium travel rewards cards is trip delay coverage. If your flight is delayed -- the length of delay required varies -- you can send the bill to your credit card company's insurance provider for things like ...

Devaluation of Citi Prestige Trip Delay Benefit and more...  In This Issue...  Devaluation of Citi Prestige Trip Delay Benefit  Hyatt Cracks Down on Elites Lending Out Their Elite Status  United Replacing $300 Performance Bonuses With Quarterly Reaping  Best Ever 70,000 Mile Offers Back for Delta Credit Cards  Governors: You Don’t Really Want to Lure Delta Headquarters Away From Atlanta Anyway  American Releases Video to Educate Employees on Their O’Hare Gate Dispute  Trump’s Personal Pilot Isn’t as Bad an Idea to Head the FAA as You Think  Why American Airlines is Brilliant Not to Hedge Fuel  New Best-Ever Starwood Business Card Signup Offer  More Recent Articles Devaluation of Citi Prestige Trip Delay Benefit One of the great benefits of many premium travel rewards cards is trip delay coverage. If your flight is delayed -- the length of delay required varies -- you can send the bill to your credit card company's insurance provider for things like transportation to and from a hotel, your room night, and meals. Continue reading Devaluation of Citi Prestige Trip Delay Benefit...          • Email to a friend •   Hyatt Cracks Down on Elites Lending Out Their Elite Status Hyatt explicitly lets members gift their elite status to friends when they book awards in someone else's name. But booking a paid reservation for someone else using your own account is verboten. Frequently some members will book a stay in their own name and add a friend as a second guest on the reservation. Continue reading Hyatt Cracks Down on Elites Lending Out Their Elite Status...          • Email to a friend •   United Replacing $300 Performance Bonuses With Quarterly Reaping United Airlines sent a memo to employees yesterday telling them they would no longer receive their quarterly bonuses of up to $300. Instead when United hits at least one of four performance metrics they all get entered in a lottery. Continue reading United Replacing $300 Performance Bonuses With Quarterly Reaping...          • Email to a friend •   Best Ever 70,000 Mile Offers Back for Delta Credit Cards I'm not sure how long the expensive customer acquisition strategies will prove sustainable but we're seeing a bonus arms race largely because of intense competition for customers and the economic models that suggest how important each new customer is. American Express is offering signup bonuses up to 70,000 SkyMiles which I believe is only the third time I've ever seen a public offer go that high for a Delta card. Continue reading Best Ever 70,000 Mile Offers Back for Delta Credit Cards...          • Email to a friend •   Governors: You Don’t Really Want to Lure Delta Headquarters Away From Atlanta Anyway As governors around the country flirt with the idea of luring Delta's headquarters out of Georgia now that lawmakers there are refusing to give them fuel tax subsidies they've lobbied for -- and some are even offering to back the truck up as it were (Connecticut's governor says they "are committed to doing whatever necessary to help make this relocation a reality.") -- consider that Delta doesn't just devalue SkyMiles they renege on deals with governors, too. Continue reading Governors: You Don’t Really Want to Lure Delta Headquarters Away From Atlanta Anyway...          • Email to a friend •   American Releases Video to Educate Employees on Their O’Hare Gate Dispute United Airlines has 14 more gates than American at Chicago O'Hare. American is opening 5 new gates that they paid for, reducing the gap to 9. But the new O'Hare expansion plan re-opens the gap and returns United to a 14 gate advantage. American isn't losing gates. They are complaining that United is gaining gates. But American is refusing to sign a new lease under these terms. Continue reading American Releases Video to Educate Employees on Their O’Hare Gate Dispute...          • Email to a friend •   Trump’s Personal Pilot Isn’t as Bad an Idea to Head the FAA as You Think The aviation world was apoplectic this week at the suggestion that President Trump's personal pilot John Dunkin could be named to head the FAA. It may have just been payback for the FAA eliminating navigation waypoints named for Trump in 2015. However Trump has been on record for awhile saying the agency should be headed by a pilot. Continue reading Trump’s Personal Pilot Isn’t as Bad an Idea to Head the FAA as You Think...          • Email to a friend •   Why American Airlines is Brilliant Not to Hedge Fuel In this week's "Tell Me Why" podcast for American Airlines employees, airline CFO Derek Kerr explains why they do not hedge fuel. I offer a slightly different formulation of Kerr's answer and it evinces surprising humility and self awareness. Continue reading Why American Airlines is Brilliant Not to Hedge Fuel...          • Email to a friend •   New Best-Ever Starwood Business Card Signup Offer American Express has a limited-time offer through March 28, 2018 for the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express. It's equal to the biggest offer they've ever had for the card, and the spending requirement is lower than when it surfaced last. 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