Citibank's new no annual fee AAdvantage MileUp℠ card just launched last month. Like United's and Delta's no annual fee offerings it will not include travel benefits like early boarding or free checked bags. However it will offer full mileage earning. ...

3 Reasons to Get Citi’s New No Annual Fee AAdvantage Card and more...  In This Issue...  3 Reasons to Get Citi’s New No Annual Fee AAdvantage Card  Watch American Airlines Breakfast Carts Fall Over in Turbulence  Two Gulf Carriers Working to Link Up With Star Alliance  Chase Launching New ‘Sapphire Banking’ August 27  Great ANA First Class Award Availability, and a Brief Window to Book at a Discount  Book 3-Cabin International First Class With Delta Miles (For Real)  Taiwan May Retaliate Against Airlines for Complying With Chinese Speech Demands  Final Day: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. 3 Reasons to Get Citi’s New No Annual Fee AAdvantage Card Citibank's new no annual fee AAdvantage MileUp℠ card just launched last month. Like United's and Delta's no annual fee offerings it will not include travel benefits like early boarding or free checked bags. However it will offer full mileage earning. And this one is uniquely good for a no annual fee product. In fact there are 3 main reasons to get this card: Continue reading 3 Reasons to Get Citi’s New No Annual Fee AAdvantage Card...          • Email to a friend • Watch American Airlines Breakfast Carts Fall Over in Turbulence When the seat belt sign is on, wear your seat belt. When the seat belt sign is off, but you're in your seat wear your seat belt. This is video from an American Airlines flight from Miami to Buenos Aires in the past few days. American operates both a Boeing 777-200 and a Boeing 777-300ER. It appears to me this video is of the aft galley on a 777-300ER. Continue reading Watch American Airlines Breakfast Carts Fall Over in Turbulence...          • Email to a friend • Two Gulf Carriers Working to Link Up With Star Alliance Etihad has talked up a strategy of linking up with several Star Alliance airlines saying that since they are no longer 'their own alliance' this isn't in conflict with Star rules. Etihad isn't the only Gulf carrier pursuing closer ties with the Star Alliance though. Gulf Air says this is their objective as well. Continue reading Two Gulf Carriers Working to Link Up With Star Alliance...          • Email to a friend • Chase Launching New ‘Sapphire Banking’ August 27 After Chase introduced their Sapphire Reserve Card they immediately took a $200 - $300 million hit to their bottom line. They took another $330 million charge in the just-completed second quarter for rewards expense. The strategy then for making money on affluent customers moves to cross-selling, which is why they've offered points bonuses for new mortgages. Here's the next stage. Continue reading Chase Launching New ‘Sapphire Banking’ August 27...          • Email to a friend • Great ANA First Class Award Availability, and a Brief Window to Book at a Discount There's a 30% bonus on transfers from Amex to Virgin Atlantic right now and Virgin offers the cheapest US-Asia first class awards on their partner ANA. So it seemed worth taking a look at ANA first class availability. And right now the Houston and Chicago routes especially have great availability beginning in 2019 through end of schedule. Continue reading Great ANA First Class Award Availability, and a Brief Window to Book at a Discount...          • Email to a friend • Book 3-Cabin International First Class With Delta Miles (For Real) China Eastern flies Shanghai - New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco (they also serve Honolulu, but with equipment that lacks a first class cabin). Beyond Shanghai of course you can connect to myriad destinations. Delta of course owns a piece of China Eastern, so I choose to believe this is intentional, making that airline's best product available for redemption by SkyMiles members. Continue reading Book 3-Cabin International First Class With Delta Miles (For Real)...          • Email to a friend • Taiwan May Retaliate Against Airlines for Complying With Chinese Speech Demands When the US administration amped up trade rhetoric on China, China began squeezing US companies especially ones with visible brands. Marriott fired a social media employee who 'liked' a Friends of Tibet tweet, and even self-reported a banned book in the lobby of one of its hotels. China has insisted travel companies not list Taiwan as a separate country. Of course, they've largely complied. US airlines though haven't gone so far as to identify Taiwan as explicitly part of China as many world airlines have. Indeed US airlines are trapped between their Chinese regulators and needing to appease the government at home which has publicly rebuked China for attempting to regulate US corporate speech. Continue reading Taiwan May Retaliate Against Airlines for Complying With Chinese Speech... Continue Reading »          • Email to a friend • Final Day: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer 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 tomorrow August 8. Continue reading Final Day: 100,000 Point Amex Business Platinum Offer...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles Who Does the Overhead Bin Space Belong To, Anyway? Facebook Wants Your Credit Card Transaction Detail and Airline Elite Status Fast Track 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