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New Amex Platinum Benefit: SoulCycle Elite Status and Discounts and more...  In This Issue...  New Amex Platinum Benefit: SoulCycle Elite Status and Discounts  British Airways Moving to Revenue-Based Redemptions Next Year  Protect Your Status With the Status Merry-Go-Round and Hotel Resort Fees in Legal Trouble  Man Sprints Behind American Airlines Ticket Counter and Rides the Baggage Belt in Miami  American Offering Up to 100,000 Bonus Miles for Buying Miles (Buy Miles Under 2 Cents a Mile)  Photos from Inside the Ritz-Carlton Where Saudi Royals Are Being Held Prisoner  Qatar, Rebuffed By American Airlines, Just Bought 9.6% of Cathay Pacific  The One Thing to Do Before Your iPhone Breaks  More Recent Articles New Amex Platinum Benefit: SoulCycle Elite Status and Discounts Platinum Card by American Express cardholders now receive SoulCycle benefits. These benefits have been announced as available for one year, though of course the relationship could be extended. Continue reading New Amex Platinum Benefit: SoulCycle Elite Status and Discounts...          • Email to a friend •   British Airways Moving to Revenue-Based Redemptions Next Year British Airways Executive Club is a challenging program already: Fuel surcharges; extremely expensive premium cabin long haul awards; fuel surcharges; few elite benefits that aren't provided to all oneworld elites of the same tier; fuel surcharges; modest mileage-earning since they eliminated 1 mile per mile flown. And now we can expect things to get worse. Continue reading British Airways Moving to Revenue-Based Redemptions Next Year...          • Email to a friend •   Protect Your Status With the Status Merry-Go-Round and Hotel Resort Fees in Legal Trouble 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 Protect Your Status With the Status Merry-Go-Round and Hotel Resort Fees in Legal Trouble...          • Email to a friend •   Man Sprints Behind American Airlines Ticket Counter and Rides the Baggage Belt in Miami On Saturday at the Miami International Airport a man sprinted onto a checked baggage conveyor belt behind an American Airlines ticket counter and out onto the tarmac. He is then "seen being chased by an army of airport employees in neon vests." Continue reading Man Sprints Behind American Airlines Ticket Counter and Rides the Baggage Belt in Miami...          • Email to a friend •   American Offering Up to 100,000 Bonus Miles for Buying Miles (Buy Miles Under 2 Cents a Mile) It is not at all surprising to see the price of American AAdvantage miles falling with the value of those miles falling, but clearly they're testing to see what bottom looks like and whether 1.72 (or lower) drives more purchases than 1.83 or 1.92. And of course they need to switch things up if only to make "Buy 1 Suit Get 7 Free" look like a limited time offer! Continue reading American Offering Up to 100,000 Bonus Miles for Buying Miles (Buy Miles Under 2 Cents a Mile)...          • Email to a friend •   Photos from Inside the Ritz-Carlton Where Saudi Royals Are Being Held Prisoner Saudi Arabia commandeered the Ritz-Carlton Riyadh to use as a prison as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moved against powerful senior princes and government leaders over the weekend. Now here are photos from inside the Ritz-Carlton prison. Continue reading Photos from Inside the Ritz-Carlton Where Saudi Royals Are Being Held Prisoner...          • Email to a friend •   Qatar, Rebuffed By American Airlines, Just Bought 9.6% of Cathay Pacific Qatar Airways is buying 9.6% of oneworld partner Cathay Pacific for $662 million making Qatar the third largest shareholder of the Hong Kong-based airline. Swire Group owns 45% of the carrier and Air China owns 30%. In addition to stakes in British Airways, Iberia, and Cathay, Qatar Airways owns 10% of LATAM and 49% of Italian carrier Meridiana. Continue reading Qatar, Rebuffed By American Airlines, Just Bought 9.6% of Cathay Pacific...          • Email to a friend •   The One Thing to Do Before Your iPhone Breaks Credit cards are big business. So figuring out how to deliver benefits most relevant to potentially high value consumers is big business too. People usually forget about their credit card benefits beyond the most obvious ones -- rewards, priority boarding, lounge access. Continue reading The One Thing to Do Before Your iPhone Breaks...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles Turn 139,231 Points into 2 Business Class Roundtrips to Europe       Click here to safely unsubscribe from "View from the Wing." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.