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America West now reserves premium window and aisle seats exclusively for FlightFund Elite members. Further, exit row seating will be available for assignment at the time of ticketing, based on seat availability,… Continue Reading
Frontier Airlines announced that members of its EarlyReturns frequent flyer program will receive an additional benefit when redeeming award travel. Customers redeeming miles for travel on or after Jan… Continue Reading
To ask if business travelers play golf is like asking if it rains in Seattle. So we’ll dispense with the preliminaries. In a unique and ridiculously easy offer, Crowne Plaza Hotels is offering free… Continue Reading
If you think that changes -- or possible upcoming changes -- to the Elite traveler may be bad business, you are not alone. Readers again have spoken: Leave my elite rules alone. Also, raves from one reader… Continue Reading
Accountant on holiday? That's the cleansed version of what many savvy travelers were left asking after a computer glitch resulted in a misplaced decimal point on thousands of Holiday Inn bills recently… Continue Reading
Miles. We’ve all got them. But are we using them? Since the birth of the first frequent flyer program in 1981, an estimated 11 trillion miles have been awarded. Of those, less than 400 billion —… Continue Reading
Cathay Pacific’s reward program, Asia Miles, recently announced a new partnership with Points.com, a Toronto-based promotional points exchange program. Asia Miles members in North America can now… Continue Reading
Internet travel service Travelocity announced Oct. 15th the introduction of “Travelocity Preferred Hotel Perks,” an addition to its 120,000-member loyalty program. Hotel Perks offers room… Continue Reading
By year’s end, AirTran plans to roll out an automated version of its frequent flyer program. As it stands now, customers have to use the Pony Express to send in their paper ticket receipts in order… Continue Reading
At press time, federal regulators were expected to make a decision on the three-airline code-share agreement between Delta, Continental and Northwest. In late October, federal regulators extended their… Continue Reading