I quickly signed up for the new World of Hyatt Credit Card when it came out this summer and I started putting a good bit of spending on it right away. That cinched my top tier elite status with Hyatt next year. Let me explain the value behind why I did ...

Earn Top Tier Hyatt Status Through Credit Card Spend Alone and more...  In This Issue...  Earn Top Tier Hyatt Status Through Credit Card Spend Alone  American Express Introduces Premium Cabin Airfare Discounts via Online Chat  4 Takeaways About Airfares and Passenger Experience From United’s Earnings Call  Hertz Becomes First Non-Airline to Join the SkyTeam Alliance  The End of the A310 and Shouldn’t the TSA Believe Women?  Transatlantic Low Cost Carrier Crackup as Wow Air Cancels 5 U.S. Routes  More Recent Articles This email contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. Earn Top Tier Hyatt Status Through Credit Card Spend Alone I quickly signed up for the new World of Hyatt Credit Card when it came out this summer and I started putting a good bit of spending on it right away. That cinched my top tier elite status with Hyatt next year. Let me explain the value behind why I did that, and offer the two reasons it's a good idea not to wait to get this card. Continue reading Earn Top Tier Hyatt Status Through Credit Card Spend Alone...          • Email to a friend • American Express Introduces Premium Cabin Airfare Discounts via Online Chat For years American Express has had an 'International Airline Program' for Platinum and Centurion cardholders which amounted to 2-for-1 business class tickets provided you were buying full fare. This has had limited usefulness for many cardmembers, often full fare business class is about twice as much as discounted advance purchase business, at most you'd save a few hundred dollars buying business class for two passengers. A limited subset of cardmembers, though, found this very useful. Last June they revamped the program and made it much more useful. And now you do not even need to call to use it. Continue reading American Express Introduces Premium Cabin Airfare Discounts via Online Chat...          • Email to a friend • 4 Takeaways About Airfares and Passenger Experience From United’s Earnings Call United is sticking to its guns as the only airline refusing to let passengers bring carry on bags onboard when buying basic economy fares. They're opening two more Polaris lounges and may re-evaluate the number of business class seats on board some aircraft. And airfares have a lot more room to rise -- and passengers will pay up and keep flying. Continue reading 4 Takeaways About Airfares and Passenger Experience From United’s Earnings Call...          • Email to a friend • Hertz Becomes First Non-Airline to Join the SkyTeam Alliance Hertz has just announced that they've become the first 'non-air affiliate' of the SkyTeam airline alliance that includes Delta, Air France KLM, Korean Air and others. While more marketing tie-ins can be better than fewer, a car rental company is a somewhat strange brand to launch with. Renting cars is so nine years ago. Hertz was once the rental company for business travelers. In this extended montage from Up in the Air when George Clooney is grounded in Omaha he wants to buy a Chrysler Sebring from Hertz. Continue reading Hertz Becomes First Non-Airline to Join the SkyTeam Alliance...          • Email to a friend • The End of the A310 and Shouldn’t the TSA Believe Women? 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 The End of the A310 and Shouldn’t the TSA Believe Women?...          • Email to a friend • Transatlantic Low Cost Carrier Crackup as Wow Air Cancels 5 U.S. Routes At the beginning of the month I wrote about minor transatlantic player Primera Air shutting down. Now Wow Air is eliminating 5 routes -- including Dallas Fort-Worth and New York JFK, which they had refused to confirm yesterday. There has been talk about British Airways parent IAG acquiring Norwegian as a way to kill low fare competition. Continue reading Transatlantic Low Cost Carrier Crackup as Wow Air Cancels 5 U.S. Routes...          • Email to a friend • More Recent Articles American Raising Prices, Adding Restrictions for Club Access Star Alliance Member Swiss Selling New York – Paris for $291 Roundtrip Sharknado Star Tara Reid: Delta Flight Attendant Demanded My Dog Go in the Overhead Bin Delicious: Customs Confiscated a Whole Roast Pig in Atlanta 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