American Express launched their Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card last week and apparently they've been unable to keep up producing and shipping the cards. They say the problem is high demand. American Express will be delaying ...

Production Problems: American Express Sending Out Temporary Starwood Luxury Cards and more...  In This Issue...  Production Problems: American Express Sending Out Temporary Starwood Luxury Cards  Airline Now Calls Flight Attendants ‘Sky Angels’ and Everyone Has a Reason They’re Fired at Delta  Coca Cola is Buying Costa Coffee for $5 Billion – and That Means a Lot More Premier Inns  United Shares Member Info With Other Airlines to Combat Status Match Fraud  How Much Money the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program Makes and What That Tells Us About US Airlines  13 Year Old Girl’s Advice for Your Next Flight and 2 New Restaurants at SFO With Free Food  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. Production Problems: American Express Sending Out Temporary Starwood Luxury Cards American Express launched their Starwood Preferred Guest® American Express Luxury Card last week and apparently they've been unable to keep up producing and shipping the cards. They say the problem is high demand. American Express will be delaying shipping of the proper card design and doesn't expect to be caught up for two months. So they're sending out interim cards with the wrong design. Continue reading Production Problems: American Express Sending Out Temporary Starwood Luxury Cards...          • Email to a friend • Airline Now Calls Flight Attendants ‘Sky Angels’ and Everyone Has a Reason They’re Fired at Delta 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 Airline Now Calls Flight Attendants ‘Sky Angels’ and Everyone Has a Reason They’re Fired at Delta...          • Email to a friend • Coca Cola is Buying Costa Coffee for $5 Billion – and That Means a Lot More Premier Inns Costa Coffee is a UK coffee shop chain, with over 2100 locations in there and over 1200 internationally about a third of which are in China. They began expanding outside the UK 20 years ago, with their first international location in Dubai which probably explains why I know them mostly from the Mideast. The company that owns Costa Coffee also owns Premier Inns. I never realized the connection though it makes sense why I've always gotten my morning coffee from a Costa when staying at a Premier Inn. Continue reading Coca Cola is Buying Costa Coffee for $5 Billion – and That Means a Lot More Premier Inns...          • Email to a friend • United Shares Member Info With Other Airlines to Combat Status Match Fraud You might want to defect from United to American or from Delta to Alaska, but it's pretty tough to do that and start from scratch with a new airline. You're well treated as an elite, and it's rough out there flying without any status (although bottom tier of status can be approximated in many cases with the airline's co-branded credit card). It's hard to move your business when you're used to getting upgrades! So airlines came up first with status matches. That can be helpful but - from the perspective of the loyalty program - it can also be abused. Continue reading United Shares Member Info With Other Airlines to Combat Status Match Fraud...          • Email to a friend • How Much Money the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program Makes and What That Tells Us About US Airlines Earlier in the month I wrote about how much money US frequent flyer programs have earned so far this year. There's no need to do back of the envelope with Qantas, in fact Qantas shares real numbers about its frequent flyer program. It's not hard to extrapolate to the US market, or to pinpoint devaluation of existing points as well as reduction in points-earn. Continue reading How Much Money the Qantas Frequent Flyer Program Makes and What That Tells Us About US Airlines...          • Email to a friend • 13 Year Old Girl’s Advice for Your Next Flight and 2 New Restaurants at SFO With Free Food 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 13 Year Old Girl’s Advice for Your Next Flight and 2 New Restaurants at SFO With Free Food...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles Does Earning Credit Card Rewards Take Advantage of Other Consumers? Report: 1 in 50 Passengers Will Find Love on an Airplane Will Hyatt Buy the Former Orient-Express Hotel Chain Belmond? It Doesn't Cost Money to Earn Miles Anymore 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