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Thursday, July 26, 2018

Free Signup for Membership Site With the Cheapest Luxury Hotel Rates on the Web and more...

Club1 Hotels has a new booking engine and an app and booking through them seems easier and cleaner than before. There are also tons more top hotels than before, too, when I'm searching their site I'm generally finding the inventory I want. There are ...

Free Signup for Membership Site With the Cheapest Luxury Hotel Rates on the Web and more...


Free Signup for Membership Site With the Cheapest Luxury Hotel Rates on the Web

Club1 Hotels has a new booking engine and an app and booking through them seems easier and cleaner than before. There are also tons more top hotels than before, too, when I'm searching their site I'm generally finding the inventory I want. There are cruises and car rental deals, too.

Since joining for a year with this offer is free - something they usually charge for - I don't see a downside to signing up just in case you have a use for their deals in the coming year. And search the site because any good deals are 5% better with my promo code. They appear to take their best rate guarantee seriously, too.

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American Airlines Reorganizing its Fleet to Spend Less Money, Reduce Capacity

On American's earnings call this morning the airline tried to get ahead of disappointing financial performance both in absolute terms and relative to its largest competitors by announcing new aircraft deferments (reducing, or pushing into the future, capital expenses) and making other changes to their fleet in order to reduce the amount of product (seats) they sell.

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CONFIRMED: American Bringing Back Carry On Bags to Basic Economy, Punishing Customers is Bad Business

On July 3rd I shared that American was poised to relax the most draconian restriction on their lowest-price Basic Economy fares, once again allowing customers on these lowest fares to bring both a personal item and a full sized carry on bag onto the plane. American refused to comment.

However this change has now been announced in this morning's earnings release, and points to the failure of the business strategy of making your product worse in hopes of generating more revenue.

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Upgrade to the New World of Hyatt Credit Card Online

Several readers have asked asked about how to upgrade their existing Hyatt Visa to the new World Of Hyatt Credit Card. I'm now a cardholder myself, it's the card I've been most excited about this year because I frequently stay at Hyatts and hold Hyatt elite status.

For new customers there's a really generous initial bonus: 40,000 points after $3000 in spend on purchases in the first 3 months from account open and an additional 20,000 points if you spend $6000 total within the first 6 months.

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Breaking: New Marriott Program Launches August 18th, Here’s What You Need to Know

Three months ago Marriott shared details on how they'd be bringing their three loyalty programs together with Marriott Rewards, Ritz-Carlton Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest all operating on a single platform and single set of rules starting in August.

The new Marriott program launches August 18. I spoke with David Flueck, Marriott's Senior Vice President of Global Loyalty, on Tuesday to talk about the transition and get several more questions answers about what to expect.

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Partially Caving to China’s Demands, Here’s How US Airlines Refer to Taiwan Now

While at first it appeared that American's Chairman Parker and United's Chair Garvey had surrendered to Chairman Mao, the reality seems a little more nuanced than that.

We'll see if these State Department-worthy maneuvers suffice to stay out of China's crosshairs, whether China declares US airlines to be failing to comply, or whether there are problems with airport slots in China, with convenient gate access, or myriad other permit problems on the ground.

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Aeroplan Issues Response to Air Canada’s Buy Out Offer

Air Canada along with Aeroplan's financial partners has made an offer to buy Aeroplan, the spun-off frequent flyer program with which Air Canada has an exclusive agreement through June 2020.

The market seems to like this deal, or at least believes that the move signifies some deal will occur at a price premium over prior-day trading.

Aeroplan has now issued its response.

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British Airways Launching Pittsburgh Service and Inaugural Business Class Awards Are Available

Pittsburgh was abandoned as a hub by US Airways starting around 2004. Twenty years ago they flew to about 120 destinations from Pittsburgh. By the end of the decade they had only half that number of flights and were using just 10 gates.

The airport has attracted new service from low cost carriers, but is no longer a hub. They haven't had service to London since US Airways eliminated Gatwick service in 2004. Today the only transatlantic flying from Pittsburgh is seasonal Frankfurt service (Condor), seasonal Paris service (Delta) and year-round Reykjavík flights (Wow Air).

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