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
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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
Letters – November, 22 2002
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
Intelligence – November, 22 2002
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
New Web Site to Help Needy and Charity Organizations Get Where They Need to Be
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
Asia Miles Teams Up With Points.com
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
Travelocity Unveils Hotel Perks
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
AirTran Getting in Step With the Big Guys
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
We Likely Missed It
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
Amex Asleep at the Wheel?
Has American Express left home without its Web site? A visit to the “What’s New” section of the credit card giant’s Membership Rewards Web site boasts that, for the first time,… Continue Reading