Southwest and Chase introduced a new more premium credit card product last week that's a nice improvement over their existing cards. I like the line from Southwest's chief marketing officer about the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card, it ...
This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. One month into writing this blog, back in June 2002, I explained how you could fly Concorde for $1258.95 by earning miles for magazine purchases. Your cost would be even lower, of course, if you donated the magazines to a non-profit and took a tax deduction. That deal is long gone, but you can still buy magazines, earn lots of miles, and even potentially donate them for a tax deduction (provided it still makes sense for you to itemize under last year's tax reform). Continue reading Many Of You Can Buy United and American Miles For Less Than 1.4 Cents Apiece... What I don't like in this document is that it suggests customers will be reassured their existing itineraries will still be honored if they actually ask. I can certainly see the '87% of passengers' American says fly at most once a year not understanding this and not explicitly asking, agreeing to be moved to a less desirable itinerary thinking they have no choice. Continue reading American Airlines Has Started Contacting Passengers in Advance About Overbooked Flights... When Marriott's acquisition of Starwood first closed, they immediately allowed you to link accounts. That gave you the ability to status match and it gave you the ability to move points between accounts at a ratio of 1 Starpoint to 3 Marriott points. Linking accounts does not and will not ever automatically combine them. Marriott tells me they are "now rolling out [the ability to combine accounts] in batches to our members through tomorrow. As a result, when members log in and see the prompt they will have the opportunity to combine their accounts." Continue reading Marriott Starting to Allow Members to Combine Accounts. Here’s How it Works.... A lot of people are unhappy with how Marriott is handling travel packages. Over the weekend Marriott shared the new chart for how legacy travel package certificates work in the new program. Marriott listened to the feedback that came in quickly over the weekend and is already making an adjustment. Continue reading Marriott Listened: Offering Limited Points Back on Travel Packages... Starwood Preferred Guest has moved onto the Marriott IT platform. Marriott brought their system down on Saturday to transition everything over. (Loyalty programs always do these things on Saturdays for good reason.) IT is hard, and things haven't gone as smoothly as we would have hoped. Awards haven't been redeemable at all properties, and for some it's been sporadic. However for the most part systems are now largely functional on Monday afternoon. But not for members whose accounts have the wrong status. Continue reading New Marriott Program: Right Now Your Status is Whatever You Say it Is... Effective September 1 the New York JFK lounge will have 35% more space because they're converting the attached B concourse Admirals club to become part of the Flagship lounge. This adds 7000 square feet to the existing 19,541 square foot Flagship lounge footprint. That means the only Admirals Club at JFK will be the C concourse lounge. However most domestic flights — which is what most Admirals Club passengers are flying — depart out of the satellite C concourse and as a result the B club which was renovated last summer doesn't ever seem busy. Continue reading American Expanding Flagship Lounge By 35% Shutting Down New York JFK B Club (Starting 9/1)... |
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