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American Matches Ticket Change/Cancellation Fee Increase To $200

May 1, 2013

Earlier this morning I wrote about how United, US Airways and Delta all increased their ticket change/cancellation fees on routes in North America from $150 to $200 in the past week and speculated that American Airlines would probably soon follow suit. Well, I didn’t have long to wait to see whether my prediction would come [...]

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Higher Airline Change Fees Are Here To Stay – United, US Airways and Delta All Raise Prices

May 1, 2013

Update: On the morning of the publication of this post, American Airlines also announced it would be matching United, US Airways and Delta in increasing its ticketing change/cancellation fees for travel within the U.S., between the U.S. and Canada, and between both the U.S. and Canada and Mexico, Puerto Rico & the Virgin Islands, the [...]

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Targeted American Status Match and Challenge Promo – Gold, Platinum and Executive Platinum Offers

April 30, 2013

Loyalty Lobby reports on three targeted American Airlines promos that offer Gold, Platinum and Executive status matches and challenges to former elites looking to regain their status as well as packets of 500-mile upgrades. The offer is instant elite status through August 31, 2013, as well as the chance to extend that elite status through [...]

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American Airlines To Open New York JFK Flagship Check-In in May

April 30, 2013

American Airlines just announced that it is bringing its signature Flagship Check-In experience to New York JFK starting May 1. So far, American only offers Flagship Check-In at Los Angeles LAX and Miami MIA. It also has one at London Heathrow that is available to passengers traveling to the US in First or Business Class [...]

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Maximize Monday: Airline Frequent Flyer Programs for Businesses

April 29, 2013

Normally when we talk about frequent flyer  accounts, we’re discussing those held by individuals or even households, but what you might not realize is that many airline frequent flyer programs  actually offer business accounts that allow businesses to earn points on the itineraries their employees travel while the individual employees still earn the miles and [...]

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Video SRQ: How Do You Maintain Status On So Many Different Airlines?

April 28, 2013

TPG reader Michael is wondering how you can maintain status on multiple airlines while still frequently booking travel using miles: “I have only discovered your blog in the last year (since gaining status for the first time). It seems like you take a lot of trips on miles, so I wanted to ask (maybe naively) [...]

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Saturday Recap: 35% Transfer Bonus From Amex to British Airways, 300 Free Priority Club Points, Best Western’s $50 Gift Card Promotion, Double AAdvantage Miles Between New York And Houston, Alitalia Cash and Miles Awards

April 27, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: 35% Transfer Bonus From Amex to British Airways Avios: As a recap from earlier this week, American Express Membership Rewards is offering a 35% transfer bonus from Membership Rewards to British Airways Avios through June 7, 2013. While not quite as generous as recent transfer bonuses of 40% and [...]

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American Releases Lucrative 2013 Elite Rewards: Easier Qualification and More Choices

April 24, 2013

Elite Rewards is American Airlines’ incentive program for its elite flyers who go above and beyond their status qualification thresholds by offering them gifts such as high mileage bonuses, additional systemwide upgrades and the ability to gift elite status to friends and family among other benefits. In the past, you would just get your Elite [...]

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Video Sunday Reader Question: Getting to Australia Using AA Miles or SPG Points

April 21, 2013

TPG reader Margo has both American Airlines miles and Starwood Preferred Guest points but is unsure how she should use them to get to Australia: “I signed up for Award Nexus to search for flights for a trip we are taking to Australia in mid September. Although we have plenty of American AAdvantage miles, we [...]

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SRQ: Should I Fly Cathay Pacific First Class To Asia On The Outbound Or Return

April 21, 2013

TPG reader Michael has an award trip to Asia coming up on Cathay Pacific and wants to put his miles to the best use. Here’s his question: “My wife and I are going from Chicago to Bangkok (stopping in Hong Kong). We only have enough miles to get first class Cathay Pacific one way for [...]

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My Elite Status Conundrum: American vs. Delta

April 17, 2013

For some reason, I just can’t manage to stop flying Delta. For the past year I’ve been trying to shift my loyalty from Delta to American, which you would think would be easy with all of Delta’s negative changes – like an impending shift to a revenue-based elite program, hacked Same Day Confirmed Benefits, an [...]

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Airline Miles Expiration Policies Roundup

April 17, 2013

Following up on the recent national survey I commissioned from The Princeton Group and my contest about how people track their frequent flyer miles, I thought it would be a good idea to create a basic guide to the expiration policies of the major airline and hotel loyalty programs. Although mileage expiration is a major [...]

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5 Tips for Avoiding Hassle During the American Airlines System Failure Aftermath

April 16, 2013

Even though American has fixed their computer issues, thousands are still stranded or severely delayed. American’s head of communications just emailed me and stated that AA is offering the following options: 1) If customers must travel today and are already at the airport, they can rebook on another airline by visiting an American Airlines agent [...]

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American Airlines Beefing Up LAX Presence: 9 More Strategic Routes Starting in June

April 10, 2013

American Airlines announced today that it’s adding nine new destinations from Los Angeles International LAX I an effort to expand and strengthen its growing route network as well as potentially smooth a transition with US Airways’ route network before the two airlines merge later this year. Eight of the new routes are to regional domestic [...]

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Newark to Los Angeles and San Francisco for $99 Each Way Total on United, American and Virgin America!

April 9, 2013

Virgin America recently started flying from Newark to Los Angeles and San Francisco and as a way to lure customers away from United and American, they’re offering some roundtrip fares for $99 one-way, $198 total roundtrip! Details: Travel Sept 3rd – October 30th and depart on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday. This works in both [...]

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Flight Review: American Airlines 777-300 New Business Class GRU-JFK

April 9, 2013

After having a great experience flying First Class on one of American’s brand new 777-300′s and spending a whirlwind four days in Sao Paulo I was looking forward to flying back to New York again on American’s new 777-300ER, but this time testing out the airline’s new international business class. Instead of using points for [...]

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Citi Executive AAdvantage Mastercard 50,000 Mile Bonus Through Admirals Club

April 9, 2013

During my recent credit card app-o-rama, I applied for both the CitiBusiness AAdvantage card and the Citi Executive AAdvantage World Mastercard through Citi’s main 30,000 mile link (but later found this Flyertalk thread which promoted a 50,000-mile sign-up bonus, but apparently does not work). Well, I learned my lesson because though I got approved for [...]

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Saturday Recap: Earn 2,013 Bonus SkyMiles from Hilton, Virgin America Extending Elevate Status Match Offer, American Admirals Clubs Raising Membership Fees, Earn up to 500 Bonus HawaiianMiles

April 6, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: Virgin America Extending Elevate Status Match Offer: Virgin America has just extended their status match program now through June 30, 2013 for new applications. To take part in the status match, if you haven’t already, join Elevate, then email [email protected] with your Elevate number and either a copy or screenshot [...]

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(Video) Flight Review: AA 777-300ER JFK – GRU in New First Class and a Behind the Scenes Tour of the Plane

April 4, 2013

As I posted the other day, I spent my Tuesday night flying from JFK to Sao Paulo in Brazil aboard one of American Airline’s new 777-300ER’s so that I could experience the airline’s new first class product. I posted in real-time on  Twitter, Instagram and Facebook with live updates from the trip. But I also [...]

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My Trip to Sao Paulo Brazil on the New American Airlines 777-300 in First Class

April 2, 2013

Tonight I’ll finally be checking out the American Airlines brand new 777-300ER aircraft from JFK to Sao Paulo, Brazil and thanks to AAdvantage miles, I’ll be enjoying all 4,745 miles in their new First Class cabin. I also reached out to AA to let me on the plane early to snap pics of all cabins, [...]

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American Airlines 30% Buy Miles Bonus And 15% Discount

April 2, 2013

Much like its promotion from about a year ago, Points.com is offering two concurrent promotions where you can both get up to a 30% bonus on buying AAdvantage miles and buy them at a 15% discount. The 15% discount is only good from now through 12:00pm noon Central Time April 5, 2013, while the up-to-30% [...]

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Saturday Recap: Bonus Delta SkyMiles in BusinessElite, Bonus AAdvantage Miles from Hertz, Tickets Now Available for 2013 Chicago Seminars, Earn Bonus Rapid Rewards Points from Alamo

March 30, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: Corporate Travelers Earn Up To 20,000 Miles To Sydney Or Tokyo-Narita: Delta launched a promotion that awards flyers with bonus miles when traveling in BusinesElite between New York (JFK) and Tokyo-Narita (NRT) or between Los Angeles (LAX) and Sydney (SYD). SkyMiles members will earn [...]

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US Airways American Merger Approved By Federal Judge

March 28, 2013

The US Airways American Airlines merger took another step forward yesterday when federal bankruptcy judge Sean Lane officially approved the $11 billion deal, calling it an “excellent result” – though that remains to be seen. American Airlines has been in bankruptcy since November 2011, while the official announcement of the merger with US Airways came [...]

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Saturday Recap: My Latest Credit Card Churn, Enter to Win 100,000 SPG Points, Hilton Daily Grand Promo, British Airways and American Airlines Premium Fare Promotion, Alaska Airlines Now Offers One-Way Partner Awards

March 23, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: My Latest Credit Card Churn: This week I wrote a series about my most recent round of credit card applications. The first post covered the basics of credit and how to perform a personal check to make sure everything is healthy before a round of applications. [...]

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