Companies use managed travel programs to get bulk discounts and limit the conflicts of interest inherent to having travelers make their own travel decisions. But many of those companies don’t do a very good job of it, and the tools provided to travelers are frequently not very good. Skift interviews the CEO of Concur about […]
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News and notes from around the interweb: The Citi Double Cash Card — which in my view is the strongest cash rebate card — is targeting some people with signup bonuses. There may be a brief window to get a whole lot of extra value from the Citi Prestige card. Why Maui’s Kahului Airport three-letter […]
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Last week I wrote about a system issue between Air Canada's Aeroplan program and Air China, whereby award tickets weren't properly being issued. Even though Aeroplan was issuing award tickets for travel on Air China, there was a communication error whereby they weren't confirming on Air China's end.
Given that this issue was impacting hundreds of tickets, Aeroplan pulled all Air China award space to prevent more tickets from being issued with this error.
The good news is that this has been fixed, so Air Canada Aeroplan miles can once again be redeemed for travel on Air China, both through Aeroplan's website and by phone.
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This past week Lucky noted that the first Qatar Airways A380 was delivered. It’s been a bizarre, bumpy road getting there not least of which because of the Qatar Airways CEO’s truthiness problem. Interestingly, Qatar doesn’t actually own their A380, it’s leased through a UK leasing company. And UK regulations required the aircraft to be […]
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You might expect to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a suite at the Burj Al Arab or for a stay on Necker Island, but here's one that might surprise you.
Check out the rates for Hotel Shangri La Santa Monica for tonight on Kayak.
Yep, that's right, the price for a "Deluxe King Room with Ocean View" is $999,999.
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Not sure how I missed this story last week. A passenger was detained on a Southwest plane at Seattle-Tacoma Airport after using ominous names for his Wi-Fi hot spot, sources said. Passenger Alayna Keagle said people became concerned Thursday after noticing strange and disturbing hot spot names emerge, such as “Southwest – Bomb on Board.” […]
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In the past week I've been to Hong Kong and back, and am presently in Las Vegas, after a quick hop up to Seattle. That brings the mileage count to over 45,000 flown miles since August 28th.
I am exhausted, and really looking forward to a somewhat quieter week to catch up on trip reports before heading to Chicago for FTU Advanced.
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I was recently engaged as an expert witness for a federal criminal trial. It’s a fascinating story that I plan to tell. But in order to explain how a program member got embroiled in what was seen as a conflict of interest, how this person came to be at odds with her employer, and how […]
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