News and notes from around the interweb: While they haven’t (yet?) led to lower prices, Here’s how falling oil prices could change airline flying decisions (HT: Alan H.) Yesterday I noted that for several hours after the advertised end of the Chase Ink Plus offer, it was still available on the Chase site. Then sometime […]
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For me there are certain hotels that "make" a brand. In other words, I largely stay loyal to a hotel brand because of those aspirational properties I daydream about staying at.
Back in the day I was Royal Ambassador with InterContinental, which was their invitation only top tier status. I don't love 90% of InterContinental properties (I find they're mostly a couple of decades past their prime), though over time there were a few properties I really came to love, like the ones in Bali, Berchtesgaden, San Francisco, etc.
IHG Rewards Club recently published their qualification criteria for Royal Ambassador, which was long overdue. Since I live in hotels, I was almost tempted to throw enough stays their way to qualify for Royal Ambassador again (~60 qualifying stays, with at least 20 of them being at InterContinental properties).
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While this has been a reliable rumor for a while, it's finally official.
EVA Air will launch 4x weekly flights between Taipei and Houston as of July 1, 2015. They haven't announced the exact schedule yet, though at nearly 8,000 miles one-way, this will be EVA Air's longest route.
Furthermore, EVA Air plans on launching flights between Taipei and Chicago as of 2016, though the exact dates haven't yet been announced.
This growth is perfectly logical on their part. EVA Air joined the Star Alliance in June 2013, and there's no denying their membership has opened up a ton of valuable connection prospects, which allows them to serve markets that might not otherwise work.
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USA Today asks but doesn’t really answer the question of why airfares are going up even as fuel prices are down from their peak. The answer is simple, though the story behind the simple answer is a bit more complex. Airfares are high because planes are full. When airlines are selling most of their seats, […]
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