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Continue Reading » 16 Comments Alaska Airlines Tips Its Hand For Plan After Buying Hawaiian Airlines by Gary Leff on May 13, 2024 May 13 2024 Alaska Airlines is buying Hawaiian Airlines, unless the government stops them. They’re paying more than three times the Hawaiian share price at the time the deal was announced, and the real question is… why? This is a great deal for Hawaiian’s shareholders. Hawaiian Airlines frequent flyers will get more valuable miles out of the deal. There will probably be some reduction in seats flying between the Hawaiian islands, but that’s happening anyway as Southwest Airlines pulls back. Southwest saturated the market. Alaska is picking up planes, pilots, and experience flying to Asia Pacific destinations which the Seattle-based carrier has never done before. It doesn’t do any long haul flying. There just isn’t that much else for Alaska in the deal. A Honolulu hub that has no moat. Mainland – Hawaii flying is highly competitive, with… Continue Reading » 25 Comments IHG Restructures Rewards Program: Plans To Sell More Points, Devaluation Coming? by Gary Leff on May 13, 2024 May 13 2024 Driving down owner cost, and net financial proposition of participating in the program, helps keep IHG competitive in attracting and retaining properties. However if they’ll be retaining more money out of points sales there are only a few scenarios for what actually happens. Continue Reading » 13 Comments Amex Lounge Crackdown: Strict Conduct Rules Announced In Atlanta [Roundup] by Gary Leff on May 13, 2024 May 13 2024 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 » 19 Comments Hotel Blows Up Relationship On Anniversary Stay, Welcomes Couple Back-But She’s Never Been There Before by Gary Leff on May 12, 2024 May 12 2024 For some, business travel is sad and lonely. The business day ends and they retreat to their room. Maybe they order some Uber Eats. They order the same chain food, eating it alone, no matter where they are in the world. Other people get out and experience the cities they visit. Sometimes those experiences get tawdry. Continue Reading » 8 Comments 7 Simple Ways to Meet Minimum Spending on a Credit Card Without Breaking a Sweat by Gary Leff on May 12, 2024 May 12 2024 There’s no quicker and easier way to earn a large amount of miles quickly than with a new credit card. It’s not super complicated and you probably have access to more spending that you can put on a credit card than you think — so it’s far less daunting to meet credit card minimum spending requirements than you think in order to earn an initial card bonus. Continue Reading » 31 Comments Stolen Valor? United Passenger Reported For Faking Military Service To Get Free Snack by Gary Leff on May 12, 2024 May 12 2024 A passenger flying United Airlines from San Francisco to Newark watched a woman in coach use what they say is fake military status to get free food. Continue Reading » 48 Comments ‘Snitches on a Plane’: Some American Airlines Flight Attendants Complain About New Inflight LOSA Monitoring by Gary Leff on May 12, 2024 May 12 2024 Some flight attendants are calling LOSA-C, the Line Operations Safety Audit-Cabin program the snitch” program. It was announced this was coming 15 months ago and was supposed to start this past fall, but the airline is only just now recruiting flight attendant observers for it. Continue Reading » 50 Comments A Touching Airport Goodbye: Viral Video Captures Tug Driver’s Final, Celebratory Pushback [Roundup] by Gary Leff on May 12, 2024 May 12 2024 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 » 5 Comments 1 2 3 … 2857 Next Page » Facebook Instagram RSS Twitter Current HOT Deals! 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Top Posts & Pages ’Snitches on a Plane’: Some American Airlines Flight Attendants Complain About New Inflight LOSA Monitoring Alaska Airlines Tips Its Hand For Plan After Buying Hawaiian Airlines American Airlines Gives Poverty Verification Letters To Newly-Hired Flight Attendants Amex Lounge Crackdown: Strict Conduct Rules Announced In Atlanta [Roundup] Hotel Blows Up Relationship On Anniversary Stay, Welcomes Couple Back-But She’s Never Been There Before About Gary Leff Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travela topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World’s Top Travel Experts" by Conde’ Nast Traveler...