Northwest’s AirCares is celebrating its 16th anniversary. Over 700 million WorldPerks miles have been contributed to AirCares partners by Northwest and its customers. The missions of AirCares partners… Continue Reading
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Best Value FFP
“SmarterTravel” recently revealed the winners of their Readers’ Choice Awards, where their readers voted on the domestic frequent flyer program that offers the best value. Southwest… Continue Reading
Delta/Northwest Advice
InsideFlyer’s editor, Randy Petersen, has started a “Help Desk” thread on usatoday.com to help frequent flyers better understand the changes coming from the merger between Delta and… Continue Reading
Shopping for Miles
It’s that time of year again–time to write out your holiday shopping list and shop online to maximize the number of bonus miles you can earn from mileage malls. To entice members to complete… Continue Reading
AMEX Cuts Platinum Benefit
The Platinum American Express Card has one less benefit to attract and retain cardmembers. As of Nov. 15, 2008, cardmembers no longer have the ability to book up to four complimentary companion tickets… Continue Reading
Naughty or Nice?
We take a look back at 2008. What happened, how frequent flyers reacted and what, if anything, you can do about it. Continue Reading
Hilton Cruises
Hilton HHonors has teamed up with CruisesOnly to offer members the ability to redeem points for more than 6,500 cruises worldwide including locations such as Baja Mexico, the Caribbean, Alaska and Europe,… Continue Reading
60 Seconds with Chris Barnard, president of Points.com
Points.com launched the Global Points Exchange (GPX) program on Dec. 17, 2007. The program allows members of different loyalty programs to trade their miles and points with other GPX users. We recently… Continue Reading
One AA Fee No More
In the July issue of InsideFlyer, we reported on a new fee that American AAdvantage said it would start charging frequent flyers. The charge was $5 to book awards online. Since that time, the fee simply… Continue Reading