French Polynesia is one of the toughest frequent flyer awards to book. That may be about to change, or at least we may expect a big drop in price. Continue reading United Will Fly to Tahiti!...

United Will Fly to Tahiti! and more...  In This Issue...  United Will Fly to Tahiti!  Cathay Pacific Launching New Longest Flight to Washington DC  How George Clooney Deals With Crying Babies on a Plane  Hilton Introduces Points Reinstatement – You Can Get Back Expired Points  How Airport Lounge Economics and Priority Pass Work, Plus Richard Branson Won Big Bet  Delta Europe Business Class Award Sale 30% Off  US Will Take UAE and Qatar to Task Over Subsidies  American Airlines Opened One of the World’s Biggest Lounges and It’s Fantastic  Why Sapphire Preferred is Easier to Get Approved for Than Sapphire Reserve United Will Fly to Tahiti! French Polynesia is one of the toughest frequent flyer awards to book. That may be about to change, or at least we may expect a big drop in price. Continue reading United Will Fly to Tahiti!...          • Email to a friend •   Cathay Pacific Launching New Longest Flight to Washington DC Cathay Pacific is expected to announce new service from Hong Kong to Washington Dulles next week operated by an Airbus A350. This clocks in at around the 12th longest flight in the world, as well as Cathay Pacific's longest, the longest from Hong Kong, and the longest from Washington Dulles. Continue reading Cathay Pacific Launching New Longest Flight to Washington DC...          • Email to a friend •   How George Clooney Deals With Crying Babies on a Plane George and Amal Clooney have six month old twins. They were flying to the U.K. with the kids (their kids were born in London in June, and Amal is from the UK). And they pro-actively "passed out noise-canceling headphones" to other first class passengers along with a note "apologizing ahead of time" on the chance that the twins cried. Continue reading How George Clooney Deals With Crying Babies on a Plane...          • Email to a friend •   Hilton Introduces Points Reinstatement – You Can Get Back Expired Points Hilton added a section on points reinstatement to its terms and conditions. While Hilton Honors points currently expire after 12 months of inactivity, they'll let you restore a million points within 18 months of expiration. Yet the way they've made this change is a problem. Continue reading Hilton Introduces Points Reinstatement – You Can Get Back Expired Points...          • Email to a friend •   How Airport Lounge Economics and Priority Pass Work, Plus Richard Branson Won Big Bet 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 How Airport Lounge Economics and Priority Pass Work, Plus Richard Branson Won Big Bet...          • Email to a friend •   Delta Europe Business Class Award Sale 30% Off If you book can by Thursday December 14th and travel between February 1 and May 21, 2018 Delta is offering saver awards 'from' 98,000 miles roundtrip in business class. Delta's normal saver award business class price between the US and Europe is 70,000 miles each way. Continue reading Delta Europe Business Class Award Sale 30% Off...          • Email to a friend •   US Will Take UAE and Qatar to Task Over Subsidies The U.S. is going to enter talks with the UAE and Qatar about airline subsidies but it doesn't sound like they'll amount to much. The irony of complaining that other airlines were too intertwined with governments always seemed lost on United, who lost a CEO over a scandal involving the airline bribing a government official. Or Delta's CEO who started all of this going on to run heavily subsidized Amtrak. Continue reading US Will Take UAE and Qatar to Task Over Subsidies...          • Email to a friend •   American Airlines Opened One of the World’s Biggest Lounges and It’s Fantastic With the introduction of the American Airlines Flagship Lounge and Flagship First Dining I think it's fair to say that Miami goes from a terrible place to connect to a positive place to transit for elites and premium cabin passengers. Continue reading American Airlines Opened One of the World’s Biggest Lounges and It’s Fantastic...          • Email to a friend •   Why Sapphire Preferred is Easier to Get Approved for Than Sapphire Reserve Chase has backed off of the big marketing push they made for Sapphire Reserve when it first launched. It no longer has the huge signup bonus that was so expensive for Chase, where there was talk of 6 or 7 year paybacks (it would take that long on average for a customer to turn profitable). Continue reading Why Sapphire Preferred is Easier to Get Approved for Than Sapphire Reserve...          • Email to a friend •       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.