Etihad's CEO says they plan to remain a global player rather than shrinking to become a premium boutique airline, even as he spurs further speculation about a merger or other close cooperation deal with UAE rival Emirates which is based just over an ...

Etihad CEO Teases Possible Deal With Emirates and more...  In This Issue...  Etihad CEO Teases Possible Deal With Emirates  Here are Details of the Design and Timing of the United Polaris Lounges Still to Open  Will the High Yield Portfolio Credit Card Strategy End Soon?  This May Be the Single Greatest Use of Rewards Points, Ever  Wide Open Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space Nearly Every Day  New World’s Longest Flight Launching This Year  More Recent Articles Etihad CEO Teases Possible Deal With Emirates Etihad's CEO says they plan to remain a global player rather than shrinking to become a premium boutique airline, even as he spurs further speculation about a merger or other close cooperation deal with UAE rival Emirates which is based just over an hour away. Continue reading Etihad CEO Teases Possible Deal With Emirates...          • Email to a friend •   Here are Details of the Design and Timing of the United Polaris Lounges Still to Open Newark is going to open in a few weeks' time and Houston will open over the summer. The Los Angeles Polaris lounge is supposed to open later this year. So if they stick to that schedule United should have 5 Polaris lounges open by the end of 2018. However we're not going to see any more in 2019. The next batch won't open until 2020, which considering these were announced nearly two years ago seems insane. Continue reading Here are Details of the Design and Timing of the United Polaris Lounges Still to Open...          • Email to a friend •   Will the High Yield Portfolio Credit Card Strategy End Soon? To get the very best out of rewards cards you don't just need one card, you need more than one. Here's what I told the Wall Street Journal's Scott McCartney a few weeks ago, "Gary Leff..likes that flexibility. You have a better chance of landing the trips and dates you want if you can buy in a variety of programs. "Is there one card that's best? I don't think so," he says. But having multiple cards "is more rewarding than ever before."' Continue reading Will the High Yield Portfolio Credit Card Strategy End Soon?...          • Email to a friend •   This May Be the Single Greatest Use of Rewards Points, Ever Whether it's Dan Eleff spending a million Starpoints to throw out the first pitch in game 7 of the World Series where his hometown Indians are playing or Pizza in Motion using points so his wife could have tennis lessons from Andre Agassi there are things you can do – worthwhile things – with points that may be better for you than just travel. And Ed Pizzarello shares a video of Cliff Yow announcing an NFL draft pick. Continue reading This May Be the Single Greatest Use of Rewards Points, Ever...          • Email to a friend •   Wide Open Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space Nearly Every Day Singapore Airlines offers very good award availability to its own members, but not very good availability to partners. I've written about excellent first class award space Los Angeles - Tokyo and great business class space Houston - Manchester. If you want to fly long haul premium cabin awards with Singapore, you need to use Singapore's own miles. Chase, American Express, and Citi points all transfer to Singapore Airlines Krisflyer. Continue reading Wide Open Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space Nearly Every Day...          • Email to a friend •   New World’s Longest Flight Launching This Year Singapore Airlines used to fly the world's longest flight, Newark - Singapore, along with what at the time was the second longest flight Los Angeles - Singapore. They held the title from June 2004 through November 2013, operating these services with flying gas cans Airbus A340-500s. It's hard to make ultra long haul flying work. A flight scheduled at over 18 hours is going to require a dedicated aircraft in each direction, and fares are going to have to cover that plane's full costs. With fuel prices up that's even more difficult since they burned over 58,000 gallons of fuel in each direction. The flight used 14 cabin crew and six pilots to make the journey. Continue reading New World’s Longest Flight Launching This Year...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Cathay Pacific Business Class Award Space Wide Open to and from Asia DEAL: 40% Off Briggs & Riley Hard Side 4 Wheel Checked Bag Passengers Told to Sit in the Lavatory, and Elite Status After One Flight Talk About an American Airlines Incident That Got Out of Hand       Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA