Worth it to buy back hotel status?
I’ve not spent very much money to maintain hotel status over the past several years. Since I switched my travel to all personal from a...
Frequent Flyer
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Priority Club attacking HHonors – the gloves come off
Frequent traveler loyalty programs often like to subtly point out their advantages over competitors. Whether it was bragging about no blackout dates back in the...
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American Airlines considering selling bonus miles for travel
Nearly a year ago American Airlines sent a letter to the IRS defining about 40 different “services” that the carrier offers to its customers. They...
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Major upgrades for jetBlue
jetBlue is making major changes to their systems this weekend, starting on Friday afternoon and scheduled to finish on Saturday, that are expected to interrupt...
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Triumph of the Air Warriors, aka me
Back in November when me and 220 other aerophiles were jetting around in a chartered Boeing 757-300 there were a couple reporters along for the...
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The middle of the end for bmi and Diamond Club
It has been barely six weeks since the new management team stepped in at bmi, the British carrier that Lufthansa took full ownership of several...
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Details on the new United unlimited upgrades scheme
As reported yesterday, United Airlines has made some significant changes to their elite upgrade program. They’re getting rid of certificate-based upgrades for the most part...
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United changing domestic upgrade program
In a move that brings it much, much, much closer to soon-to-be BFF Continental, United Airlines announced today that they are switching to an unlimited...
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A delay in the new TrueBlue program
jetBlue has been playing up their new TrueBlue loyalty program quite a bit over the past several months, and with good reason. There are a...
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Not all miles are safe when an airline goes under
Several weeks ago there was a big kerfuffle in the frequent flier world when some reporters started talking about airlines going bankrupt and the mileage...