As we commence the new year, Tarom Romanian’s SmartMiles program will be introducing two new features. Though details have yet to be finalized, the program will begin to offer “package”… Continue Reading

Standard Chartered, Qatar’s first bank, has teamed up with MasterCard and Emirates to launch a co-branded Standard Chartered Skywards credit card. The credit card gives the cardholder one Skywards… Continue Reading

Congratulations are due to the Lithuanian Airlines Amber Miles program, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Though the airline itself was launched in 1991 (LAL was the first airline of a… Continue Reading

Members of Middle East Airlines Cedar Miles program will be pleased to note that the airline’s Web site has recently been improved to allow online account monitoring. Members logging in to http://www.mea.com.lb/cedarmiles… Continue Reading

Lufthansa’s Miles & More has been busy of late, particularly in the partnership department. Though the proposed partnership with Shanghai Airlines has been postponed to March, German domestic… Continue Reading

Air France has signed a three-year agreement with the American Red Cross to form a partnership helping the U.S.-based agency carry out its Measles Initiative, a five-year program to vaccinate 200 million… Continue Reading

A commercial alliance between British Airways and Iberia has won antitrust immunity from the European Commission, and a Brussels regulator told the Financial Times that a similar agreement between Alitalia… Continue Reading

China Southern celebrated the fifth anniversary of its Sky Pearl Club with an anniversary party in Guangzhou on Dec. 1. Held at Harmony Bay — the airline’s master planned community in Hudau… Continue Reading

Australia’s Courier-Mail newspaper has reported that despite an unofficial policy encouraging government workers to use frequent flyer points for official travel, only six of the 226 Australian… Continue Reading