Last night I posted about how Delta's website stopped pricing stopovers on award tickets. Previously you were allowed one stopover and one open jaw on a roundtrip award ticket.
Though as of yesterday, award tickets didn't price the same way. While open jaws still priced fine, itineraries with stopovers simply priced as multiple awards.
Nothing surprises me anymore in this industry, so I can't say I was surprised to see Delta SkyMiles make a major award ticket policy change without notice.
Delta Points has an update on the situation. It appears as if Delta is claiming that this was part of a "recent change in IT at delta.com." Per a message from someone at Delta management:
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This is probably the ultimate first world problem sort of complaint, but American has replaced the first class warm cookie of deliciousness with one that isn’t worth eating, and that I decline now every time. Perhaps that’s good — I don’t need it anyway — but I share my experiences and thoughts on this blog […]
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Earlier in the year American Express introduced what are arguably the two most lucrative cards for accruing Membership Rewards points -- the Amex EveryDay and Amex EveryDay Preferred.
The funny thing is that they seem to be the best Membership Rewards cards almost by accident. Their marketing was entirely focused around the lives of busy moms (with Tina Fey as their spokesperson), with a focus more on cash and merchandise redemptions than Membership Rewards travel redemptions.
But the cards are a blessing for us points collectors, as they've introduced two firsts:
-- A card that accrues "premium" Membership Rewards points without an annual fee
-- A card that accrues more than one Membership Rewards point per dollar spent on everyday purchases (assuming you make a minimum number of purchases per month)
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A couple of weeks ago Accor announced an extremely generous promotion, whereby they were offering 5,000 bonus Aeroplan miles per Accor stay through the end of the year. Given that many Accor properties cost less than $50 per night, it was a heck of a promotion for racking up miles.
The promotion conditions weren't especially clear in terms of how often you could earn the bonus and which hotels were participating:
-- The terms mentioned "participating hotels," which really doesn't make it clear which properties are participating -- Accor later confirmed that all 2,700 properties participating in Le Club Accorhotels were participating in the promotion
-- There was confusion over how many times the bonus could be earned -- could it be earned once, or an unlimited number of times?
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Earlier today we learned more about what the 2015 AAdvantage program will look like. Dividend Miles will be integrated into AAdvantage in the second quarter of 2015, and fortunately for us, AAdvantage is more or less staying the same. That's great news.
Heck, I'd say on balance the value proposition of AAdvantage is even improving, as American is adding complimentary same day flight changes for Executive Platinum members, and many would argue it's good news that they're adding complimentary upgrades on American flights of less than 500 miles.
The other "big" news we now know is that those qualifying for Chairman's Preferred status will receive eight American systemwide upgrades when the programs integrate in the second quarter of next year.
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