Qatar Airways coming to Miami
Join an alliance and then start service to partner hubs. That’s the way the industry generally works these days and Qatar Airways is playing their...
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United’s newest partner: Germanwings
Call it a small victory for United Airlines customers. As Lufthansa continues to shift much of their domestic and intra-Europe flying to their Germanwings operations...
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Compare IHG award and cash rates easily
I was chatting with some friends recently about hotels and the topic of comparing IHG rates came up. I don’t really love their site at...
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United’s MileagePlus Program: Hidden Restrictions-Friendly
For several years now I’ve been touting the benefits of the United MileagePlus program. Not because of the customer service or the quality of United’s...
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Lufthansa cutting first class cabin on some routes
The long, slow death march of international first class cabins continues to move forward (similar stories were being discussed 15 months ago, too). Lufthansa confirmed...
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New feature: Tag your award alerts with W.A.T.T.
I’m usually pretty good about keeping track of my various trips. At least I like to think I am. But when it comes to setting...
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TAM sets alliance switch date: 31 March 2014
We’ve all known that the move was coming and that there would be about 180 days of advance warning. Well, today is the 180-day mark....
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Plan my trip: NYC-Abu Dhabi
Recent news that Royal Jordanian award inventory is now available on the American Airlines website has me excited because I like when more award options...
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How not to manage a major policy change to your loyalty program
UPDATE: Turns out that the miscommunication comes from the fact that American didn’t actually change anything, even though their systems did. Still quite the mess...
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Making the anywhere search a bit better
And by “a bit” I really mean a whole lot. A few weeks back I introduced the idea of the “anywhere” search alerts on the...