Buying an airline using points
The dance of buyouts and other aid offers surrounding Japan’s JAL sped up a bit overnight with Delta leading the effort from SkyTeam to offer...
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Diamond Club upgrades their program
Diamond Club, the loyalty program of bmi, has long been a rather attractive program for folks who live in the United States and like to...
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TrueBlue 2 is alive!
Although initially announced to be launching on Monday, TrueBlue 2 – the new loyalty program from jetBlue – is now alive and well on the...
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A pretty awesome movie about frequent fliers
I don’t know Gabriel Leigh, the guy who put this together, but I do know a number of the folks being interviewed. And I have...
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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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A billion dollars worth of miles
Just how many frequent flier miles does a billion dollars buy? Ask the folks at Citibank, who have just made such a purchase from AMR,...
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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...
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I’m definitely a Porter Air person
Ever since the launched service a couple years ago I’ve been looking for an excuse to fly on Porter Air. They’re a small airline based...
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Continental’s new reward chart and other changes
With Continental’s upcoming move to Star Alliance there have been a lot of questions surrounding their OnePass program. Mileage accrual for partners and the reward...
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More Double EQM mania
The airlines must be desperate. Both American Airlines and United launched double EQM promos today, akin to the programs they ran earlier in the year...