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Bank Of America Points Will Transfer To Alaska Airlines—But Your Miles Could Be Worth Less viewfromthewing.com/bank-of-…

Bank Of America Points Will Transfer To Alaska Airlines—But Your Miles Could Be Worth Less

In addition to news about product and joint ventures, Alaska Airlines announced news announced its loyalty program today. One item is generating frequent flyer excitement - points transfers to Alaska...

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Hyatt’s New Promotion Offers Up To 36,000 Bonus Points—Free Nights Count, But You Must Register viewfromthewing.com/hyatts-n…

Hyatt’s New Promotion Offers Up To 36,000 Bonus Points—Free Nights Count, But You Must Register

Hyatt will give you 3,000 bonus points for every three eligible nights this fall, even when you’re redeeming points or a free night certificate for the room. The new promotion tops out at 36,000...

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Alaska Airlines To Join American Airlines Overseas Joint Ventures—Fewer Rivals May Oddly Mean More Flights viewfromthewing.com/alaska-a…

Alaska Airlines To Join American Airlines Overseas Joint Ventures—Fewer Rivals May Oddly Mean More...

Alaska Airlines plans to join American Airlines’ transatlantic and transpacific joint ventures, sharing revenue with partners including British Airways and Japan Airlines and seeking permission to...

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American Airlines Is Confirming Business Class Upgrades For The Holidays—Book By Wednesday Night viewfromthewing.com/american…

American Airlines Is Confirming Business Class Upgrades For The Holidays—Book By Wednesday Night

American Airlines is bringing back a huge opportunity to turn a systemwide upgrade into a confirmed business class seat for the holidays. Buy Premium Economy on an eligible flight, request the...

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Alaska Is Putting Beds On Its 737s—And Building A Lounge Most Passengers Can't Get Into viewfromthewing.com/alaska-i…

Alaska Is Putting Beds On Its 737s—And Building A Lounge Most Passengers Can't Get Into

Alaska Airlines is finally putting lie-flat seats on its Boeing 737s. Until now they haven't had a premium domestic product akin to what United, American, Delta and JetBlue offer on their most...

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This Tiny U.S. Airport Has No Scheduled Flights—Losing It Could Make Trips To Asia Take Longer viewfromthewing.com/this-tin…

This Tiny U.S. Airport Has No Scheduled Flights—Losing It Could Make Trips To Asia Take Longer

An airport with no scheduled airline service is still a linchpin that makes your flight across the Pacific possible. Midway Atoll’s Henderson Field gives airlines somewhere to land if something goes...

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American Airlines Employee’s Online Boyfriend Called In Airport Bomb Threats—And Watched Police Respond Live viewfromthewing.com/american…

American Airlines Employee’s Online Boyfriend Called In Airport Bomb Threats—And Watched Police...

An American Airlines employee met a man on TikTok, and her online boyfriend used the relationship to make bomb threats against the airport where she worked. From Alabama, he watched police responding...

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Chase May Give Rejected Travel Card Applicants A Second Chance—With Other Lenders Taking The Risk viewfromthewing.com/chase-ma…

Chase May Give Rejected Travel Card Applicants A Second Chance—With Other Lenders Taking The Risk

Chase is exploring a second chance for people it turns down for some of its co-branded credit cards, with other lenders taking on the risk. United is interested—and increasingly makes having its card...

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Southwest's Christmas Meltdown Stranded 2 Million Passengers — Investors Say They're The Inconvenienced Ones viewfromthewing.com/southwes…

Southwest's Christmas Meltdown Stranded 2 Million Passengers — Investors Say They're The Inconven...

Southwest Airlines stranded roughly two million passengers during its Christmas 2022 meltdown. Nearly four years later, shareholders are still trying to get paid for it.

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Boeing Knew About New 737 MAX Software Glitch For Nearly Two Years—United And Southwest Won’t Accept Aircraft With It viewfromthewing.com/boeing-k…

Boeing Knew About New 737 MAX Software Glitch For Nearly Two Years—United And Southwest Won’t...

Boeing knew about a newly disclosed 737 MAX software glitch for nearly two years before notifying airlines. Now United and Southwest won’t accept new aircraft with the affected software, the FAA is...

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A Plane Crashed Into A Cornfield With 4 People Aboard—3 Skydivers Parachuted In To Save Them viewfromthewing.com/a-plane-…

A Plane Crashed Into A Cornfield With 4 People Aboard—3 Skydivers Parachuted In To Save Them

A nearby pilot spotted the wreckage and offered to drop skydivers beside it. The jumpers had emergency medical training, the field was difficult to reach by road, and all four people aboard the...

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United CEO Trash Talks Delta’s “Half Empty” Pacific Routes—But His Own Profits Could Take A Hit viewfromthewing.com/united-c…

United CEO Trash Talks Delta’s “Half Empty” Pacific Routes—But His Own Profits Could Take A Hit

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is trash talking Delta’s Pacific expansion, dismissing the markets it’s entering as “low yield and half empty” and saying it doesn’t have the right planes. United has...

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Chase, Amex And Citi Pay You To Shop—But A Discount Doesn’t Mean The Merchant Made More Money viewfromthewing.com/chase-am…

Chase, Amex And Citi Pay You To Shop—But A Discount Doesn’t Mean The Merchant Made More Money

Banks are turning purchase histories into targeted offers and advertising businesses. Those discounts can change which card you use, where you shop, and how you book—but new research questions how...

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American Airlines Keeps Praising Trump While Taking A $7 Billion Fuel Hit—What Do They Want? viewfromthewing.com/american…

American Airlines Keeps Praising Trump While Taking A $7 Billion Fuel Hit—What Do They Want?

CEO Robert Isom praised the economy in the Oval Office. Two weeks later, American warned of a $1 billion jump in its fuel forecast. Its courtship of Trump may help with an upcoming Airbus order—or an...

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Southwest Flight Credits Can Expire In 6 Months—$15 Gift Card Trick Makes Them Last Forever viewfromthewing.com/southwes…

Southwest Flight Credits Can Expire In 6 Months—$15 Gift Card Trick Makes Them Last Forever

Southwest Basic credits are nontransferable and expire six months from the original ticket date. A Choice Preferred booking and a small gift-card payment can currently turn them into transferable...

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Gross: Flight Attendant Filmed Refilling Water Bottle From The Plane’s Tap viewfromthewing.com/gross-fl…

Gross: Flight Attendant Filmed Refilling Water Bottle From The Plane’s Tap

A Frontier passenger filmed a flight attendant refilling a water bottle from the plane’s galley dispenser—and says the water was being handed out as bottled. Bringing bottled water onboard is...

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Hilton May Add “Black Diamond” Above Diamond Reserve—Pushing Diamond Status Further Down [Roundup] viewfromthewing.com/hilton-m…

Hilton May Add “Black Diamond” Above Diamond Reserve—Pushing Diamond Status Further Down [Roundup]

Hilton’s “Black Diamond” has surfaced in internal materials, suggesting another status tier above Diamond Reserve could push ordinary Diamonds further down the ranks. Also: a $50 Rakuten signup offer...

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Southwest Had No Choice But To Abandon What Made It Great - Here's Why They Became Like Every Other Airline But Worse viewfromthewing.com/southwes…

Southwest Had No Choice But To Abandon What Made It Great - Here's Why They Became Like Every Other...

Southwest’s old model stopped scaling. Broader distribution forced it to unbundle fares, premium seats required assigned seating, and credit card economics demanded lounges. Each change made the next...

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Airlines Are Making Business Class Worse, Not Cheaper—Why Their “Basic” Strategy May Backfire viewfromthewing.com/airlines…

Airlines Are Making Business Class Worse, Not Cheaper—Why Their “Basic” Strategy May Backfire

Delta, United, JetBlue and a growing list of international airlines say stripped-down premium fares offer more choice. They are not creating a new class of bargain fares. Airlines do need to discount...

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“Temporary” Airline Subsidies Still Cost $680 Million A Year After 48 Years—Paying For 78% Empty Flights viewfromthewing.com/temporar…

“Temporary” Airline Subsidies Still Cost $680 Million A Year After 48 Years—Paying For 78% Empty...

Pueblo, Colorado is bringing back a 6 a.m. flight to Denver on a route subsidized at $6.84 million a year. The winning airline bid forecast filling just 22% of seats, and Colorado Springs airport is...

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