This is a fantastic card to have if you live in a city with lots of United service, fly them regularly but not enough for elite status, or you're an elite who wants upgrades on award tickets or help towards the spending requirement for status. In fact ...
This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. This is a fantastic card to have if you live in a city with lots of United service, fly them regularly but not enough for elite status, or you're an elite who wants upgrades on award tickets or help towards the spending requirement for status. In fact the benefits of this card are surprisingly strong for the fee. Continue reading 13 Things I Love About United’s Credit Card... Winter is a rough time for the US travel industry all around. Business travel dries up and hotel occupancy falls. That's not good for airlines either. Leisure travel is heavy around the holidays, and among passengers looking to escape the cold, but weather wreaks havoc across the system. Even if you're flying from Miami to Los Angeles your inbound aircraft might be coming from snowing Chicago O'Hare. Continue reading Delta Wants Employees to Sleep on Planes During Storms... China Southern has become a stepchild within the SkyTeam alliance, with Delta taking an equity stake in China Eastern and China Eastern taking an equity stake in Air France. Moreover with Delta's Korean Air joint venture, China Southern Guangzhou connections become less important still. American Airlines took an equity stake in China Southern (natch) but their codesharing relationship was limited by SkyTeam rules. Continue reading China Southern Will Leave SkyTeam Next Year... I've previously suggested that frequent flyer executives have their compensation paid out in airline miles. Then their incentives would be aligned with their customers to support the value of the currency. Do you think airline employees would accept their pay in travel vouchers? If not then why should investors? Continue reading Troubled Major Airline Offers Free Travel Instead of Interest Payments to Investors... The standard public offer for the main United credit card from Chase has let you earn 40,000 miles. More miles have mostly been available on a targeted basis. And the card has usually had its $95 annual fee apply straight away in the first year. However Chase has come out with the biggest public offer I've ever seen for the UnitedSM Explorer Card. Continue reading Biggest Public Offer EVER for United’s Credit Card... Hyatt re-launched their credit card in the middle of the year and I took my old one out of the sock drawer, quickly upgraded to the new version, and have worked to put about $30,000 spend on it so far. That locked in my top tier elite status for the year. Thus far the card has not been subject to Chase's "5/24" (where they don't approve you if you've had more than 4 new cards in the last 24 months). I reported in June that this was likely to change. Now there are several data points suggesting 5/24 now applies to this card. Continue reading Looks Like 5/24 is Expanding to My Beloved Hyatt Visa... Uber has announced a new loyalty program called Uber Rewards. It's an improvement for customers because there's earning for Uber transactions -- you get rebates you did not get before -- and better treatment for frequent Uber riders. Continue reading Uber Just Launched Its New Loyalty Program, Here’s How it Works... |
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