In January China flexed its muscles against Marriott at a time that the US President began making rumblings of a trade war. They shut down Marriott's booking engines in the country. Marriott Marriott fired an hourly worker who rather innocuously 'liked' ...

China Dictating US Airline Website Design and Award Charts and more...  In This Issue...  China Dictating US Airline Website Design and Award Charts  Chase Introducing New 1.5x Business Card With $500 Initial Bonus  Chase Making Cuts to Sapphire Reserve, No More Unlimited Priority Pass Guests  How Resort Fees are Backfiring on Vegas and Hotel Requests of the Rich & Famous  Phoenix Will Replace Small Priority Pass Space With New 10,000 Square Foot Lounge: Whose Will It Be?  Earn 10,000, 50,000 or Even 100,000 Marriott Points From Chase  American Changing Upgrade Priority for Companions  More Recent Articles China Dictating US Airline Website Design and Award Charts In January China flexed its muscles against Marriott at a time that the US President began making rumblings of a trade war. They shut down Marriott's booking engines in the country. Marriott Marriott fired an hourly worker who rather innocuously 'liked' a tweet about Tibet and even removed a banned book from one of their hotels. At the time I wrote that China would be cracking down on airlines, too. Continue reading China Dictating US Airline Website Design and Award Charts...          • Email to a friend •   Chase Introducing New 1.5x Business Card With $500 Initial Bonus Later this month Chase will be adding a new card to the Ink family, that seems more the equivalent of the Freedom Unlimited, offering 1.5 points per dollar on all spend. Continue reading Chase Introducing New 1.5x Business Card With $500 Initial Bonus...          • Email to a friend •   Chase Making Cuts to Sapphire Reserve, No More Unlimited Priority Pass Guests I don't believe that Chase will ever make money on its Sapphire Reserve product. They're effectively spending all of the interchange on rewards and benefits, and any margin must be coming from customers paying an APR -- but with the high income, high credit, and high assets Chase reports about Sapphire Reserve cardmembers you'd expect even that to be a smaller group of customers than usual. So it's not surprising that we see the bank looking for cost savings. Continue reading Chase Making Cuts to Sapphire Reserve, No More Unlimited Priority Pass Guests...          • Email to a friend •   How Resort Fees are Backfiring on Vegas and Hotel Requests of the Rich & Famous 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 Resort Fees are Backfiring on Vegas and Hotel Requests of the Rich & Famous...          • Email to a friend •   Phoenix Will Replace Small Priority Pass Space With New 10,000 Square Foot Lounge: Whose Will It Be? Currently Phoenix Airport's terminal 4 B concourse has a Priority Pass-accessible "The Club" lounge. It opened in 2014 and it quite small, 2985 square feet. It has food and drink, but the furniture is dated and there are no restrooms inside the lounge. This space -- and an additional 7000 square feet -- will be turned into a new lounge. The airport's RFP provides clues as to whose lounge it will be. Continue reading Phoenix Will Replace Small Priority Pass Space With New 10,000 Square Foot Lounge: Whose Will It Be?...          • Email to a friend •   Earn 10,000, 50,000 or Even 100,000 Marriott Points From Chase Marriott and Chase have introduced their new Marriott credit card. It's got a $10 higher annual fee than the older 'Premier' card (so $95) and it comes with stronger points-earning. doug asked, "will they allow upgrading from the existing card?" Continue reading Earn 10,000, 50,000 or Even 100,000 Marriott Points From Chase...          • Email to a friend •   American Changing Upgrade Priority for Companions Last fall I wrote that American was changing how they wait list mileage upgrades and systemwide upgrades. Companions would begin inheriting their upgrade sponsor's elite status for upgrade priority effective January 1. That didn't happen, the IT wasn't ready. However it's now gone into effect. Continue reading American Changing Upgrade Priority for Companions...          • Email to a friend •   More Recent Articles United Confirms Cuts to Meal Service on Flights Under 4 Hours 50 Live Crocodiles Seized at London Heathrow Hyatt May Buy Another Hotel Brand and How Airbus Rose to Compete With Boeing       Safely Unsubscribe • Archives • Preferences • Contact • Subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC • 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123 • Sudbury, MA 01776, USA