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Earning the Best Hotel Elite Status With Credit Card Spend Alone and more...  In This Issue...  Earning the Best Hotel Elite Status With Credit Card Spend Alone  Singapore Airlines Adding More Than One Los Angeles Non-Stop and 2nd San Francisco Non-Stop  Uber Drivers Can Narc on Passengers Through Their App and Mr. Bean in First Class  The Cleanest Airport in the World and 1000 Free Miles  Dumpster Fire Frequent Flyer Program Devalues Next Month, Only Promises To Keep Prices For 5 Months  Starwood Is Losing a Third of Its Dubai Portfolio in One Shot, Which Chain Will Get These Great Hotels?  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. Earning the Best Hotel Elite Status With Credit Card Spend Alone A reader asks about earning the best most lucrative hotel status with credit card spending alone. And I lay out how to do it, and why it can be worth doing. Continue reading Earning the Best Hotel Elite Status With Credit Card Spend Alone...          • Email to a friend • Singapore Airlines Adding More Than One Los Angeles Non-Stop and 2nd San Francisco Non-Stop There's been a lot of speculation about what Singapore Airlines would do with its extra Airbus A350ULR (ultra long range) capacity beyond a daily Newark and Los Angeles flight. And the answer is additional Los Angeles flying and additional San Francisco flying. San Francisco will not only have 2 United non-stops to Singapore and a Singapore Airlines non-stop to Singapore, they'll have a second non-daily Singapore Airlines flight as well. Continue reading Singapore Airlines Adding More Than One Los Angeles Non-Stop and 2nd San Francisco Non-Stop...          • Email to a friend • Uber Drivers Can Narc on Passengers Through Their App and Mr. Bean in First Class 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 Uber Drivers Can Narc on Passengers Through Their App and Mr. Bean in First Class...          • Email to a friend • The Cleanest Airport in the World and 1000 Free Miles 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 The Cleanest Airport in the World and 1000 Free Miles...          • Email to a friend • Dumpster Fire Frequent Flyer Program Devalues Next Month, Only Promises To Keep Prices For 5 Months Alitalia is being restructured (again..) because Etihad is the latest investor to decide it's done losing money on the transatlantic debacle. Alitalia's frequent flyer program is a separate company, spun off so that Etihad could give Alitalia more cash and so that Etihad could exercise more control all without running afoul of foreign ownership rules. And the Millemiglia frequent flyer program is one of the real dumpster fires of loyalty. And not just for doubling partner award prices overnight either. Some loyalty programs expire miles. Alitalia expires the program. Everyone's mileage goes away at the end of the year when the program resets. Continue reading Dumpster Fire Frequent Flyer Program Devalues Next Month, Only Promises To Keep Prices For 5 Months...          • Email to a friend • Starwood Is Losing a Third of Its Dubai Portfolio in One Shot, Which Chain Will Get These Great Hotels? Marriott is losing the St. Regis, W, and Westin in Dubai all at once. That's a one-third hit to the number of legacy Starwood rooms in Dubai, including the same owner pulling the St Regis Habtoor Polo Resort and Spa in recent days. Dubai was one of Starwood's most important markets, they had a legacy Emirates partnership similar to their Delta partnership in the US and a UAE co-brand credit card. Continue reading Starwood Is Losing a Third of Its Dubai Portfolio in One Shot, Which Chain Will Get These Great Hotels?...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles American Airlines Asked Its Employees About Therapy Pets in the Cabin. Here's What They Think. Southwest Airlines Eliminates Peanuts – And Part of Their History New York Giants Player Lost His Mother. The TSA Spilled Her Ashes. How to Prevent Your Frequent Flyer Miles From Being Stolen Opinions expressed here are author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airline or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.     Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA