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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Hyatt Introduces Points-Earning, Redemption, and Elite Benefits at Exhale Spas and more...

Hyatt purchased Miraval not because they wanted a standalone wellness resort, but because they want to extend the brand and create an association with wellness across their hotels. They purchased Exhale spas as part of the same strategy. To date they've ...

Hyatt Introduces Points-Earning, Redemption, and Elite Benefits at Exhale Spas and more...


Hyatt Introduces Points-Earning, Redemption, and Elite Benefits at Exhale Spas

Hyatt purchased Miraval not because they wanted a standalone wellness resort, but because they want to extend the brand and create an association with wellness across their hotels. They purchased Exhale spas as part of the same strategy.

To date they've offered discounts and bonus points, getting their feet wet, and today they've rolled out Exhale Spa benefits as a feature of the World of Hyatt program.

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Marriott Wants to Make Good, Get You Registered for Fall Promotion

Last month Marriott introduced its first big promotion since launching their new program.

However not everyone was able to register for it. Marriott even said this was intentional. Now they're saying it wasn't, and they want to help folks get registered that weren't able to earlier.

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US Airlines Should Sell Food in Domestic First Class

Airlines are scrounging for revenue, United raised first checked bag prices and isn't doing anything more for customers in return. Why not look for opportunities to earn more money by adding more value?

Airlines should offer paid buy on board in first class. Let you pre-order a premium meal for extra money. That way airlines can make more money off of customers who may be best-positioned to pay, a better strategy perhaps than higher checked bag fees for infrequent leisure flyers traveling in coach.

I'd happily spendfor a meal that was actually good on a 3 hour flight.

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American Admits Basic Economy ‘Underperforms’: Making Your Product Worse Doesn’t Make More Money

American Airlines used to believe that 'basic economy' would be worth a billion dollars to the airline.

We keep hearing that basic economy is a success. American now concedes that despite those proclamations that it has 'underperformed'.

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Qatar QSuites Awards Wide Open For Whole Family, World’s Best Business Class

Qatar has the best business class product in the world in its new 'QSuites'. To be sure even their older Airbus A350 business class is very good, a B/E Aerospace Super Diamond seat and a phenomenal soft product. But QSuites are revolutionary suites with doors and moveable partitions that allow two and even four passengers to travel together in their own space.

Two U.S. routes that see QSuites aircraft have outstanding availability for four or more business class award seats for much of 2019. And I throw in another route with great family business class space with a new Qatar business product as well.

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Four Bizarre New Tales From Airlines This Week

All four of these items came to my attention yesterday. On. The. Same. Day. It is apparently not just politics were we live in interesting times.

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Breaking: Video as 2 Planes Collide on Runway in Sudan

Two Sudanese military jets collided on the runway 18 in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

Here's video of the collision by these two Antonov aircraft.

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