Last summer Priority Pass added the club lounge at the Sofitel hotel at London Heathrow’s terminal 5 to its roster of lounges that cardmembers could access. This was a really creative play, it’s not a traditional airport lounge, but provided a very unique option for travelers.
British Airways Releases 10,000 Extra Business Class Award Seats for the Holidays
Business travel dries up over the holidays. British Airways has inordinately large premium cabins.
So there are plenty of unsold seats.
These are often discounted for paid tickets, and made available as awards. They’re highlighting that their inventory management folks have dumped extra seats six months out, as is common.
US Will Dictate Security Procedures to the World in Exchange for Keeping Full Access to US Air Markets
The US Secretary of Homeland Security has a list of demands for countries around the world, and unless those demands are met he’s going to impose an electronics ban on their flights to the U.S. — even though many of his demands have nothing whatsoever to do with an imminent threat of passengers hiding explosives in their iPads.
Free Cell Phone Service for a Year and ‘Travel’ as an Actual Diagnosable Addiction
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Woman Says She Was Kicked in the Head By United Employee
A woman says that she was kicked in the head by a United employee while sleeping in the Houston Intercontinental airport chapel across from gate 33A.
Marriott’s New Leverage Over Customers: 48-72 Hour Cancellation Policies Introduced!
When Marriott acquired Starwood Bill Marriott explained the purpose of the deal as giving them scale to have greater leverage — with online travel agencies for lower commissions (and presumably better placement) and with suppliers for lower costs.
Now it appears they think they have greater leverage with customers, too.
Tomorrow Donald Trump Will (Mostly) Ban Tourist Travel to Cuba
President Trump on Friday will speak at Manuel Artime Theater in Miami — named for the leader of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba — and announce a rollback of President Obama’s liberalization of relations with the island nation.
American Just Isn’t the Airline Its CEO Thinks It Is (Makeshift Window Shades Edition)
At the American Airlines annual stockholders meeting yesterday, airline Chairman and CEO Doug Parker noted that they earn less revenue for flying similar distances than their two largest competitors. That means, he suggests, they have low hanging fruit to improve their financial performance. All they have to do is catch up.
That’s why, he says, they’re moving from a strategy of producing the most available seat miles at the lowest possible cost to one where they earn a revenue premium by investing in their product.
Where to Credit Delta Flights and Hotel Elite Status Opportunity
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Chairman of Chinese Company That Tried to Buy Starwood Reportedly Detained
The Chairman of China’s Anbang Insurage Group, which owns the Waldorf=Astoria New York and other hotels in the U.S. and which tried to buy Starwood ultimately being outbid by Marriott, has reportedly been detained.