News and notes from around the interweb: The hotel – Hyatt Regency Crystal City – for Frequent Traveler University is now sold out except for the program’s room block. So folks buying a ticket for the biggest gathering of frequent flyers ever can still get a room. Act quickly, because that won’t last. Liquidating gift […]
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Delta is making huge changes to the SkyMiles program in 2015, on both the earning and redemption side. On the earning side, redeemable miles will be awarded based on how much your ticket costs as opposed to how many miles you fly, and SkyMiles is getting more restrictive on how many points you can transfer in from partners.
On the redemption side, SkyMiles is unfortunately adding more award tiers, though on the plus side will begin allowing one-way awards on partner airlines, which adds quite a bit of value to the program, in my opinion.
But it seems they've made another change which they haven't announced.
Via Delta Points, Delta has updated their Membership Guide & Program Rules to add the following (bolded below):
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Christopher Elliott, who will be bringing his blog to BoardingArea.com, says the government should regulate legroom and shoulder room onboard planes. He offers a scary quote from the ever credible FlyersRights group. “Airlines are aggressively reducing seat and passenger space to squeeze more revenue out passengers, despite health and safety being threatened,” says Paul Hudson, […]
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Virgin America's Elevate program has come out with a fairly lucrative promotion valid for travel between October 6 and December 19, 2014. Registration is required prior to your first travel date, though previously booked travel does also qualify for the promotion.
The promotion is entitled Feel The Earn, and through it Virgin America is offering a couple of ways to earn bonus Elevate points.
Virgin America Elevate members ordinarily earn five points per dollar spent on Virgin America, so through this promotion you earn 10 points per dollar spent on Main Cabin Select tickets (fare classes W, Q, and Z), and 15 points per dollar spent on First Class tickets (fare classes J, C, and D). The flight has to be marketed and operated by Virgin America to qualify, and the bonus is based on your original fare class -- in other words, an upgrade day of departure wouldn't qualify for the bonus.
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