Chase has launched three new cards in the past two months, and they've made aggressive acquisition offers for each one. Even though credit card deals are more expensive for banks than ever, they're showing no signs of slowing down on their spending to ...

3 New Chase Cards and What’s Behind Each and more...  In This Issue...  3 New Chase Cards and What’s Behind Each  American Express Adds Lufthansa Lounge Access Benefit to Platinum, Centurion Cards  Etihad Set to Devalue Miles at the End of June  United Airlines Dropped Tito’s Vodka, Now Serving Wheatley From “Man Who Launched a Million Hangovers”  Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space for 4 Passengers, US-Asia  United’s President Hates Fare Sales, Thinks Their Product is Good Enough  30th Anniversary of Alaska Airlines Collusion With Russia, and New Miles for Banking Offers Coming  Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia With Great Service and Food  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. 3 New Chase Cards and What’s Behind Each Chase has launched three new cards in the past two months, and they've made aggressive acquisition offers for each one. Even though credit card deals are more expensive for banks than ever, they're showing no signs of slowing down on their spending to bring customers into the bank - and even to bring more spending into the bank from existing customers. Continue reading 3 New Chase Cards and What’s Behind Each...          • Email to a friend • American Express Adds Lufthansa Lounge Access Benefit to Platinum, Centurion Cards American Express has now made the benefit official, expanded it, and clarified access rules. Effective June 1, Platinum and Centurion cardmembers have access to Lufthansa lounges in Munich and Frankfurt when flying on Lufthansa, Swiss, or Austrian. There's even first class lounge access for Black Card cardmembers. Continue reading American Express Adds Lufthansa Lounge Access Benefit to Platinum, Centurion Cards...          • Email to a friend • Etihad Set to Devalue Miles at the End of June Over the past three years Etihad has devalued its program several times. That's to be expected because it was so much better than others in the region. Qatar Airways caught me by surprise over the last month first announcing booking fees for awards - just a straight-up tax on redemptions - and then increasing the price of most awards about 60% overnight without notice. The earn and burn program went from middling to terrible overnight. And now Etihad is making changes again. They're only describing the changes in broad strokes, even though they're going to be implemented in a month. Continue reading Etihad Set to Devalue Miles at the End of June...          • Email to a friend • United Airlines Dropped Tito’s Vodka, Now Serving Wheatley From “Man Who Launched a Million Hangovers” Wheatley comes from Buffalo Trace Distillery, owned by Sazerac, which is controlled by billionaire liquor magnate William Goldring, "the man who launched a million hangovers" and known as "the cheap-liquor billionaire." Continue reading United Airlines Dropped Tito’s Vodka, Now Serving Wheatley From “Man Who Launched a Million Hangovers”...          • Email to a friend • Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space for 4 Passengers, US-Asia If you have Singapore Airlines miles first class awards turn out to be easy to book -- on their old 777 product from Los Angeles, and flying Airbus A380s all over the world. Provided of course that the A380 doesn't touch the U.S. (New York JFK - Frankfurt) and isn't their newest product. And Singapore Airlines business class awards are frequently very available too and that's true even on U.S. routes, especially from Houston and Los Angeles. Continue reading Singapore Airlines Business Class Award Space for 4 Passengers, US-Asia...          • Email to a friend • United’s President Hates Fare Sales, Thinks Their Product is Good Enough United Airlines President Scott Kirby is probably the most interesting airline executive to listen to in the country because he lays out his thinking clearly in public. I think most everything he does is bad for his customers. But he has a model for how the world works and he defends it. He spoke today at the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference. Continue reading United’s President Hates Fare Sales, Thinks Their Product is Good Enough...          • Email to a friend • 30th Anniversary of Alaska Airlines Collusion With Russia, and New Miles for Banking Offers Coming 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 30th Anniversary of Alaska Airlines Collusion With Russia, and New Miles for Banking Offers Coming...          • Email to a friend • Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia With Great Service and Food I'm just back from flying ANA roundtrip first class Houston - Tokyo which I booked for 120,000 Virgin Atlantic miles per person. Since I'm writing now about my ANA first class experience and overall trip to Tokyo and Shanghai it seemed to make sense to write about just how easy it is to book the seats currently. Continue reading Fantastic First Class Award Availability to Asia With Great Service and Food...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles The Most Important Trick for Getting What You Want From Airlines (And Other Large Businesses) American Refuses Elite Benefits When Traveling on Awards Issued By Partner Airlines 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