A few days ago we learned that Citi would be increasing earn on its primary American AAdvantage consumer credit card: adding 2 points per dollar at restaurants and gas stations, and an annual $100 American Airlines flight discount after $20,000 spend ...

United Revamping Explorer Card Benefits June 1 and more...  In This Issue...  United Revamping Explorer Card Benefits June 1  TSA Checks to Make Sure Air Marshals Don’t Show Up to Work Drunk  Inside United’s New San Francisco Business Class Polaris Lounge  Hurry: Book Lufthansa First Class Awards West Coast – Europe with Partner Miles  British Airways Looks to Reduce First Class Seats (and Not Improve Them)  Delta Tied Woman to Her Wheelchair With a Dirty Blanket  Hyatt is Stuck in the Mud  More Recent Articles United Revamping Explorer Card Benefits June 1 A few days ago we learned that Citi would be increasing earn on its primary American AAdvantage consumer credit card: adding 2 points per dollar at restaurants and gas stations, and an annual $100 American Airlines flight discount after $20,000 spend within a year provided after card renewal. Now United and Chase are out with changes coming to the United MileagePlus® Explorer Card. Cardmembers are being informed by letter over the next few days that there will be new benefits effective June 1. Continue reading United Revamping Explorer Card Benefits June 1...          • Email to a friend •   TSA Checks to Make Sure Air Marshals Don’t Show Up to Work Drunk The government knows the air marshal program is such a mess that the TSA formally checks the sobriety of air marshals showing up at the airport. No air marshal has ever stopped a terrorist or hijacker since the service was founded in 1962. Although an air marshal did shoot and kill a US citizen in 2005. If something really bad did happen on a flight and an air marshal was onboard they lack the training to do anything about it. Continue reading TSA Checks to Make Sure Air Marshals Don’t Show Up to Work Drunk...          • Email to a friend •   Inside United’s New San Francisco Business Class Polaris Lounge United's new Polaris lounge opens April 30th near gate G92 at San Francisco's airport. The facility is 28,000 square feet – the same size as American's Flagship lounge in Miami and one of the world's larger lounges – and has 440 seats. They have more power outlets – 492 – than seats. United Polaris lounges feature both buffet and menu ordering. The San Francisco lounge menu was created by chef Tritia Gestuvo though doesn't reflect a unified cuisine -- there will be congee at breakfast, pappardelle pasta with mushroom ragout in the afternoon, and United's Polaris Burger. The buffet has a ramen noodle bar in the afternoon. Continue reading Inside United’s New San Francisco Business Class Polaris Lounge...          • Email to a friend •   Hurry: Book Lufthansa First Class Awards West Coast – Europe with Partner Miles On Sunday I wrote that Lufthansa first class awards had become bookable using partner miles. That's significant because normally Lufthansa only makes first class award space available in advance to its own Miles & More members. Star Alliance partner frequent flyer programs can generally only book that space within 2 weeks of departure. Now this has spread to San Francisco - Munich. Continue reading Hurry: Book Lufthansa First Class Awards West Coast – Europe with Partner Miles...          • Email to a friend •   British Airways Looks to Reduce First Class Seats (and Not Improve Them) British Airways doesn't have a competitive business class product. On their Boeing 777s seating is eight across, middle seats are especially intimate and passengers in the window climb over the feet of their seat opponents. BA's CEO suggests any new business class seat would need to take up more room, and that room would come at the expense of first class. Continue reading British Airways Looks to Reduce First Class Seats (and Not Improve Them)...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Tied Woman to Her Wheelchair With a Dirty Blanket A woman with multiple sclerosis makes an annual trip to Europe with her husband, generally flying Delta which provides her "with a wheelchair that has straps to help her sit up straight." Only for her trip earlier this month from Atlanta to Amsterdam the woman says that Delta did not make that wheelchair available to her, so they "tied her to [a different type of] wheelchair with a "dirty blanket," bruising her in the process. Continue reading Delta Tied Woman to Her Wheelchair With a Dirty Blanket...          • Email to a friend •   Hyatt is Stuck in the Mud Hyatt has a little over 600 hotels. That's one-tenth the size of Marriott. There's Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and Accor as players and there just aren't chains in Hyatt's peer group anymore. They did try to buy Starwood themselves but their complex stock structure (two tiered stock giving outsized control to the Pritzker family) was a stopper and Marriott bested them. They tried to buy Kimpton but IHG was willing to pay far more. Continue reading Hyatt is Stuck in the Mud...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Phoenix Airport Will Offer Medical Treatment to Passengers Forced to Fly Old US Airways Planes Free AAA Hotel Discounts and Embarrassing Airline Website Hack FAA Reauthorization Bill Says You Can Be Detained and Denied Transportation if You "Verbally Assault" an Airline Employee       Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA