At the end of June American Airlines CEO Doug Parker told employees, "We're not going through the whole fleet and adding a bunch of seats to airplanes or taking out larger bathrooms and putting in smaller ones." Of course that isn't true. Continue ...

American Airlines Has a Second Boeing 737 Being Reconfigured For Less Comfort and more...  In This Issue...  American Airlines Has a Second Boeing 737 Being Reconfigured For Less Comfort  ENDS AUGUST 8: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer (Not Targeted)  American Airlines: Department of Transportation is Rethinking Approach to Joint Ventures  With GOP Primaries Over and Fewer People Watching, Governor Suspends Georgia Jet Fuel Tax  An Airport Lounge United, American, Delta and Frontier Elites All Can Access  Hyatt Walks Away from Acquiring NH Hotels and United Focuses on Towns With Under 10 People  Korean Air Eliminates Award Holds  Hilton Resurrecting ‘LXR Collection’ and Picking Up 1/3 Of Starwood’s Dubai Portfolio  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. American Airlines Has a Second Boeing 737 Being Reconfigured For Less Comfort At the end of June American Airlines CEO Doug Parker told employees, "We're not going through the whole fleet and adding a bunch of seats to airplanes or taking out larger bathrooms and putting in smaller ones." Of course that isn't true. Continue reading American Airlines Has a Second Boeing 737 Being Reconfigured For Less Comfort...          • Email to a friend • ENDS AUGUST 8: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer (Not Targeted) When we think of 100,000 point initial bonus offers for a Platinum card we usually think of this offer that pops up from time to time through the CardMatch tool. You enter your personal information and see if you're targeted. When you are it's worth jumping on. There's a 100,000 point initial offer for the Business Platinum. It's not targeted. And it gets pulled in a week. Continue reading ENDS AUGUST 8: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer (Not Targeted)...          • Email to a friend • American Airlines: Department of Transportation is Rethinking Approach to Joint Ventures oint ventures seek anti-trust immunity to allow airlines to work together on schedules and pricing, and to split up the revenue they earn together on designated routes. Proponents argue that they're a second-best workaround to limits on foreign ownership of airlines. However joint ventures remove competitors from the field. Foreign ownership could increase competition, bringing more capital, while these joint ventures reduce competitors. Continue reading American Airlines: Department of Transportation is Rethinking Approach to Joint Ventures...          • Email to a friend • With GOP Primaries Over and Fewer People Watching, Governor Suspends Georgia Jet Fuel Tax Delta and United rescinded their group discount offer for NRA members. United is based in Chicago and everyone expects gun violence there. Delta took a lot of heat for their position and tried to walk it back claiming they weren't really taking a position on the issue. The state legislature dropped an attempt to repeat the jet fuel tax that would have been a big subsidy for Delta. This was signaling to GOP primary voters. Continue reading With GOP Primaries Over and Fewer People Watching, Governor Suspends Georgia Jet Fuel Tax...          • Email to a friend • An Airport Lounge United, American, Delta and Frontier Elites All Can Access Back in April I wrote about hidden lounges: airport clubs your membership gets you into but that your airline doesn't tell you about. The perfect example of this is The Club at Bluegrass in the Lexington, Kentucky airport can be accessed by any Admirals Club member, United Club member, or Delta Skyclub member. It turns out there's an airport lounge that grants access to pretty much everyone's elites. Continue reading An Airport Lounge United, American, Delta and Frontier Elites All Can Access...          • Email to a friend • Hyatt Walks Away from Acquiring NH Hotels and United Focuses on Towns With Under 10 People 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 Hyatt Walks Away from Acquiring NH Hotels and United Focuses on Towns With Under 10 People...          • Email to a friend • Korean Air Eliminates Award Holds Korean Air has eliminated the ability to put award tickets on hold, with or without points in your account. This applies to awards for Korean Air travel (which could generally be held a month, and used to be able to be held nearly indefinitely) as well as to partner awards (which could be held ~ 5 days). Continue reading Korean Air Eliminates Award Holds...          • Email to a friend • Hilton Resurrecting ‘LXR Collection’ and Picking Up 1/3 Of Starwood’s Dubai Portfolio Earlier in the month it was reported that Marriott-Starwood would be losing the St. Regis, Westin and W hotels in Dubai all at once. The same owner of these hotels -- Al Habtoor Group -- also pulled the St Regis Habtoor Polo Resort and Spa out of the chain. Dubai was one of Starwood's most important markets, they had a legacy Emirates partnership similar to their Delta partnership in the US and a UAE co-brand credit card. Marriott's loss, though, appears to be Hilton's gain. Continue reading Hilton Resurrecting ‘LXR Collection’ and Picking Up 1/3 Of Starwood’s Dubai Portfolio...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles New American AAdvantage MileUp Card is Now Available Singer and Reality Star Scolded By Delta Captain Friday Night 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