News and notes from around the interweb:
- How math found missing Air France flight 447
- As I’ve said from the beginning, even revenue-based frequent flyer programs need promotions because loyalty programs are meant to goose business. With Australia an increasingly competitive route, Delta is running a double miles promotion which means 5 extra miles per dollar spent.
- It will still be a year and a half before American goes fully flat in business on all their Boeing 777-200s. They still need to announce a new business class seat to continue the retrofit, a version of this seat is the one I bet on. American’s premium economy announcement made that choice more likely. We’ve been expecting lie flat 757s for international flights for a year and American still needs to announce that seat.
- An Electric-Powered Road That Melts Its Own Snow (could be the future of runways)
- United’s Asia strategy
- The IHG Rewards Club cash and points trick for buying points at a discount got even better in December, it looks like they’re actually doing testing of more expensive pricing as well.
- Priceline has ditched William Shatner again
Just to clarify on the Delta promotion that it is only double miles for non-elite members. If you are an elite member you get the same 5 extra points which translates in less than double the mileage.
That’s a good-looking seat (the B/E Aerospace you “bet on” for AA…)!
Santastico – it’s always base miles that earn double miles in a double miles promotion. Delta base members earn 5 miles per dollar. Top tier elites earn 5 base miles + 120% bonus (no matter what marketing language Delta uses)
@Santastico, to be more precise, it’s double base miles, right?
Gary noted, that it means 5 extra miles per dollar. It’s exactly the same as hotel programs do it.
When SPG says, double points, it doesn’t mean 8 points per dollar for 75-night Platinums, but 2*2+2=6 points per dollar.
Double, triple, whateveriple of something always means, double, triple, whateveriple base points/miles.
I know, whateveriple is no word, but I thought it looked funny …
@Gary, I should have refreshed the page before typing my comment 😉