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A common award request PointsPros receives is for trips to Hawaii, which has seen insane growth over the past few years with Alaska’s (the airline, not the state ;) ) expansion from the West Coast. Quite often people are looking for the best product to Hawaii, and really want a lie-flat seat.
Why aren’t there more lie-flat seats to Hawaii?
If airlines had their way, there would be no lie-flat seats offered to Hawaii. They’d probably fly sardine cans if they could. It’s a leisure market, and fares and service reflect that. A sub-six hour flight on United from Newark to London serves a meal in Economy, while an eleven hour flight from Newark to Honolulu only offers meals for purchase. A little ridiculous in my book, but that’s what the market dictates.
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As most of you probably know by now, Delta will be radically altering their frequent flyer program in 2015, whereby they'll begin awarding miles based on how much you spend on your ticket as opposed to how many miles you fly.
Maybe this is old news, but reader Jon passed along a picture he took of the advertisement he saw on the seatback TV on a Delta flight.
"Who says a dollar doesn't go as far as it used to? Up to 75,000 miles per trip with the new 2015 SkyMiles program."
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Emirates has a lot of Airbus A380s. Those are big planes, with a lot of seats, and they need to send them somewhere. Like Dallas. Emirates wasn’t selling the bulk of their premium seats when they were flying a Boeing 777 on the route. Now they have even more premium seats. And they’re facing competition […]
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Last month I posted about Bluesmart, the world's first (self proclaimed) "smart" luggage. What made it so "smart?" It came with a digitally controlled lock, location tracking, trip data tracking, a battery charger, built-in scale, etc.
They went the route of crowd sourcing to fund the idea, and did remarkably well -- their goal was to raise $50,000, though they raised over a million dollars. Yow!
Call me a traditional, if you'd like, but I just don't "get it." Location tracking and trip data tracking? Why would I need that for my carry-on? And while a battery charger and built-in scale sound nice in theory, presumably they also add weight to a carry-on, and for me one of the most important things about a carry-on is that it's lightweight. But clearly a lot of people disagree with me.
Well, it looks like the "smart" luggage industry is quickly expanding, as a new bag called Trunkster is in development. Here's a video about it:
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