This morning I wrote that Air Canada made an offer to buy Aeroplan at a $2.25 billion valuation. Aeroplan was spun off from Air Canada 13 years ago. It's a separate, independent business that's part of Aimia, a loyalty company which several other ...

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More Detail on What Air Canada Buying Aeroplan Would Look Like for Members This morning I wrote that Air Canada made an offer to buy Aeroplan at a $2.25 billion valuation. Aeroplan was spun off from Air Canada 13 years ago. It's a separate, independent business that's part of Aimia, a loyalty company which several other interests as well. Air Canada announced last year that they were going to start their own program and no longer work with Aeroplan. Here's more on what the proposed deal for Air Canada to re-acquire the Aeroplan program would look like. Continue reading More Detail on What Air Canada Buying Aeroplan Would Look Like for Members...          • Email to a friend • Where to Buy the Stuff TSA Takes at the Checkpoint and $500,000 Amazon Gift Card Theft 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 Where to Buy the Stuff TSA Takes at the Checkpoint and $500,000 Amazon Gift Card Theft...          • Email to a friend • Air Canada Proposes Buying Back Aeroplan, Instead of Competing Starting in 2020 This would allow Air Canada to start with all of Aeroplan's members, instead of starting from scratch. It would take the pressure off of Air Canada to offer as rich a value proposition to members in order to compete with Aeroplan. There's a certain irony to spinning off the program, realizing income, driving down the value of that program and then acquiring it on the cheap. Continue reading Air Canada Proposes Buying Back Aeroplan, Instead of Competing Starting in 2020...          • Email to a friend • American Airlines Doesn’t Update Customers About Delays Even When Fuel Spills Out of the Wing It's been over 3 years since I wrote about American's 'Goldilocks Problem' boarding planes too early (before stated boarding time on boarding passes) and updating customers about delays too late. I find that American won't post flight delays until boarding time for an aircraft, even when those delays are blindingly obvious. And they won't update delays until revised departure times have passed. Even when fuel is spilling onto the tarmac. Continue reading American Airlines Doesn’t Update Customers About Delays Even When Fuel Spills Out of the Wing...          • Email to a friend • Former American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall Says Airline Deregulation and Mergers Were Wrong Former American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall thinks that the airline industry should never have been deregulated (1978) and the recent round of airline mergers (2008-2013) should never have been allowed. Crandall is wrong on both counts. Continue reading Former American Airlines CEO Bob Crandall Says Airline Deregulation and Mergers Were Wrong...          • Email to a friend • CEOs of American and Delta Sit on a Boeing 777 and Defend Coach American's CEO Doug Parker and Delta's CEO Ed Bastian agreed to sit in coach in the back of a Boeing 777-200 and talk about their coach products. Continue reading CEOs of American and Delta Sit on a Boeing 777 and Defend Coach...          • Email to a friend • Should Most People Ditch Airline Miles as Credit Card Rewards? When it comes to domestic awards airlines are rarely going to give you 2 cents a point in value. And you're still stuck hunting and pecking for award space rather than taking the flights you want. As award charts devalue, and airlines charge more and more points for awards (especially when saver seats aren't available) while paid tickets have often gotten cheaper using points to directly pay for travel makes more and more sense. In an era of regular $300-$400 roundtrips to Europe it can still make sense to pay for travel with credit card points even when it no longer makes sense to do so with airline miles. Continue reading Should Most People Ditch Airline Miles as Credit Card Rewards?...          • Email to a friend • American Airlines is Surveying Elites About How to Change Upgrades Loyalty programs are having a hard time delivering cherished upgrades to elites, they're monetizing premium cabins more than ever before, so what does the future look like for the all-important recognition component of airline elite status? American Airlines is surveying elites with these questions to help them decide. 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