Alaska’s strategy is to award high revenue customers, and their most frequent customers, with more miles. That’s because — as the title of one of their slides at this week’s Investor Day made clear — Industry transition to a revenue-based loyalty prorgram provides opportunity in the near term for Alaska. (Alaska was believed to be […]
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Alaska had their Investor Day conference today, and there are some interesting slides in the presentation.
Arguably not as interesting as their Investor Day conference last year, where we learned what percent of Mileage Plan awards are booked on partner airlines. But this year's was interesting nonetheless. ;)
It's worth noting that Alaska will begin selling extra legroom seats in the first half of 2015. No, they're not adding an "extra legroom" section to economy, but rather they'll start monetizing on bulkheads and exit rows. As it stands, these seats are just open to MVP, MVP Gold, and MVP Gold 75K members in advance, though can typically also be selected by non-elite members at the airport.
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I've written in the past about Silver, the innovative car rental company that's quickly growing in the US. They have a fleet of A4s with free GPS, wifi, satellite radio, fair toll tracking, and a reasonable fuel plan.
But what makes Silver equally interesting is that as of late they're more or less paying you to rent from them.
I just received the following email from Silvercar:
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euflyer points out that the free Hilton HHonors silver offer I wrote about a little over a year ago is still available. Better to walk into Hilton as a silver than as a base member. First, because of the bonus points and in some cases free bottled water. But second and more importantly is that […]
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Later this month Etihad will finally begin service with their cutting edge new A380s. The inaugural flight will be from Abu Dhabi to London on December 27, and I can't wait to be on it in the First Class Apartment.
As is often the norm when airlines take delivery of an aircraft with a new type of "product," Etihad is heavily restricting award space on the A380.
They don't seem to be releasing any first or business class saver award space on the A380, and certainly aren't releasing any saver award space in The Residence.
However, reader Carlos notes one oddity -- Etihad has released A380 first class award space between Abu Dhabi and London on October 10, 2015, only.
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Last week I wrote about how to book awards from multiple accounts. This can be a big challenge for families, particularly in the case of schedule disruptions.
Reader Matt S. left a great comment, which I think poses an interesting question:
"@Tiffany,
I think this is a great article, but it also highlights my concerns about over-diversification with points/miles accumulation. I am a casual traveler only, and only fly 2-3 times a year. I live near DFW, so I mainly fly AA. For the same reason, I have AA Citi personal and business cards to rack up AA miles. However, after reading this post and several of Ben’s other posts on miles, I’m starting to wonder if that’s the best strategy. What point/mile strategy would you recommend for casual travelers? Thanks!?
Now, full disclaimer: this might not be the same advice you'd get from Ben. We tend to agree on most things, but every so often we have different opinions about stuff like which airline is most awesome or which is the best One Direction song.
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Alaska Airlines is going to add extra legroom seats in economy during the first half of 2015. Per Alaska’s vice president and chief information officer: That means they join United, American, and Delta which all offer extra legroom seats in coach. (United and American do not comp the cocktail, though — although American does for […]
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