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Sunday, October 14, 2018

75,000 AAdvantage Mile Offer For Admirals Club Access Credit Card Ends Thursday and more...

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ Mastercard® has the best offer I've seen in a really long time, 75,000 miles after $7500 spend within the first 3 months of cardmembership. This offer was flagged as 'last call' on the front page of ...

75,000 AAdvantage Mile Offer For Admirals Club Access Credit Card Ends Thursday and more...


75,000 AAdvantage Mile Offer For Admirals Club Access Credit Card Ends Thursday

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ Mastercard® has the best offer I've seen in a really long time, 75,000 miles after $7500 spend within the first 3 months of cardmembership.

This offer was flagged as 'last call' on the front page of American's website. Now we know that it ends Thursday.

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United Airlines Threatens to Trash the Credit of Passengers Who Skip Purchased Flight Segments

United reportedly has an effort to go after customers specifically that utilize Skiplagged to fly hidden city itineraries on the airline.

In one case they're demanding payment of over $3000 and threatening to shut down the member's frequent flyer account and ban then from the airline. They are also threatening to send this to collections. That would damage the member's credit report.

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American’s 767 Reliability Issues Trap Zurich-Bound Passengers On the Ground in Frankfurt for 4 Hours

When a plane has to divert you want the process to go as quickly as possible. At the end of a long transoceanic flight the last thing you want is to sit on the ground an extra four hours, not permitted to leave the aircraft. I have to feel especially for passengers in coach on that 767. American's CEO himself says that plane is a bad experience and they know that their fleet of the aircraft has reliability issues.

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Why American’s Partner Finnair is Flying an Air Italy Plane, Despite Doug Parker’s Attack on Air Italy

Air Italy — which is 49% owned by Qatar Airways and has leased aircraft from Qatar — loaned an Airbus A330-200 to Finnair. This was after a loading vehicle at Chicago O'Hare took out a Finnair A330-300.

Finnair of course is a member of the oneworld alliance, and an anti-trust immunized joint venture partner across the Atlantic with American Airlines (along with British Airways and Iberia). And they'll be using the Air Italy plan until October 31 for flights to Chicago and Miami.

Here is, as they say, 'the rest of the story'.

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Business Class Fare Alert: East Coast – Europe From $1490 Roundtrip

Pulling up Royal Air Maroc fares between Washington Dulles and Barcelona brings up pricing around $1700 which is great in itself. They fly Boeing 787s with lie flat business class between Washington Dulles and Casablanca. From there it's a short 737 flight to many destinations in Europe.

But it gets better. Skyscanner is coming up with sites selling it even cheaper — from $1490 roundtrip. Roundtrip business class fares are available between $1500 and $1700 to several other destinations like Madrid, Paris, Lisbon, Rome, Milan, and Amsterdam.

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What Top Consultants Are Telling Airlines They Should Do to Change Their Programs

McKinsey & Co has a new report "How to improve airline customer-loyalty programs."

It begins by outlining the challenge airlines face managing the balance between printing miles and making award seats available for redemption.

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Inflight CNN May Get Expensive and More Wealth Coming for Uber Drivers

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.

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