The new Chase-issued IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card has as big a bonus as we've ever seen for a card with the loyalty program for Intercontinental, Kimpton, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn. There are new benefits for this product, even existing ...

STILL AVAILABLE: Up to 85,000 IHG Hotel Points and Elite Status and more...  In This Issue...  STILL AVAILABLE: Up to 85,000 IHG Hotel Points and Elite Status  Deal: 11,000 Miles Coach to Europe, Just 30,250 Miles for Business Class  Suing Over Small Lavatories and Suing Another Passenger for Breaking Inflight Rules  A Simple Tip for Using My Home Airport: Austin  New Worst Airline in the Country? Meet Via Air  Sometimes Gate Agents Fail to Process Upgrades, and Elites are Just Hosed  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. STILL AVAILABLE: Up to 85,000 IHG Hotel Points and Elite Status The new Chase-issued IHG® Rewards Club Premier Credit Card has as big a bonus as we've ever seen for a card with the loyalty program for Intercontinental, Kimpton, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn. There are new benefits for this product, even existing IHG Rewards Club credit card customers can apply, and anecdotally IHG cards have been relatively easier to get approved for in the past. Continue reading STILL AVAILABLE: Up to 85,000 IHG Hotel Points and Elite Status...          • Email to a friend • Deal: 11,000 Miles Coach to Europe, Just 30,250 Miles for Business Class New variable Air France points pricing is live and often makes no sense. Some awards are more expensive, some less expensive. Instead of a hidden award chart they have a calculator. It's interesting how this plays out with their promo awards, which are now out for August booking and October/November travel. Continue reading Deal: 11,000 Miles Coach to Europe, Just 30,250 Miles for Business Class...          • Email to a friend • Suing Over Small Lavatories and Suing Another Passenger for Breaking Inflight Rules 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 Suing Over Small Lavatories and Suing Another Passenger for Breaking Inflight Rules...          • Email to a friend • A Simple Tip for Using My Home Airport: Austin Avoid pickups at arrivals altogether especially in the evening and get picked up at departures instead. There are few evening departures from Austin, so the upstairs departures level is mostly empty. And this is permitted, too. Electronic signs beneath the names of airline names in front of the terminal read "DROP OFF PICKUP ONLY." The airport officially encourages upstairs pickups! I've also never had an Uber driver refuse an upstairs pickup. You have to specify a pickup location at arrivals, but I then immediately send a pickup message asking for upstairs pickup. The driver almost always thanks me (and this is probably why my Uber rating has climbed to nearly 4.9). Continue reading A Simple Tip for Using My Home Airport: Austin...          • Email to a friend • New Worst Airline in the Country? Meet Via Air Via Air moved from public charter operations to running commercial Essential Air Service subsidized flights out of Beckley and Parkersburg, West Virginia to Charlotte in 2014. They also ran unsubsidized flights from Beckley and Parkersburg to St. Augustine, Florida. The Florida-based carrier has since expanded operations and has a fleet of 6 fifty seat Embraer ERJ-145s and 4 thirty seat EMB-120 Brasilia turboprops. Continue reading New Worst Airline in the Country? Meet Via Air...          • Email to a friend • Sometimes Gate Agents Fail to Process Upgrades, and Elites are Just Hosed Earlier this year I wrote about how it often looks like gate agents process upgrades incorrectly, but there are perfectly innocent explanations that customers usually don't see. At the same time, things sometimes do appear to be done wrong. Continue reading Sometimes Gate Agents Fail to Process Upgrades, and Elites are Just Hosed...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles 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 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