News and notes from around the interweb:
- Airport bathrooms are getting better and cleaner
Men’s Room in Singapore Changi Terminal 4 - Awkward: Over the weekend I offered some criticisms of a new McKinsey paper on recommendations for loyalty programs. It turns out the paper cites me on the value of miles.
- Uber’s secret weapon is its team of economists and certainly the behavioral economics is fascinating, no one complains about surge pricing anymore now that Uber just lists a price and doesn’t tell you it’s a surge. Perhaps they learned that trick from Delta SkyMiles. (HT: @tarheeljason)
- Bank of America now lists Air France KLM Flying Blue as a partner we should be seeing the new Flying Blue credit card soon.
- Delta is dropping 9 routes
incinnati – Milwaukee – November 25, 2018
Cincinnati – Nashville – already dropped on September 28, 2018
Detroit – Akron/Canton – November 26, 2018
Detroit – Peoria -November 26, 2018
Los Angeles – Oakland – already dropped September 30, 2018
Minneapolis/St. Paul – Bloomington – November 26, 2018
Minneapolis/St. Paul – Flint – November 25, 2018
Minneapolis/St. Paul – West Palm Beach – January 2, 2019
New York JFK – Bangor – November 25, 2018
- Next year transfers from Virgin Autralia Velocity to Singapore Airlines Krisflyer become less valuable
As of 1 January 2019, transferring Velocity points to KrisFlyer miles will take place at a rate of 1.55:1, compared to the current ratio of 1.35:1.
The devaluation means that come the new year, 10,000 Velocity points will be converted into 64,516 KrisFlyer miles rather than 74,074 KrisFlyer miles under the current rate.
@ Gary — I never liked incinnati much anyway.
@ Gary — Delta can never seem to make up it mind about its OAK schedule. When ATL-OAK comes around, it can be a good route on which to book a Saver award way in advance, so you can get re-routed to SFO when they drop OAK again for the ump-teenth time..
I didn’t even know Delta had an LAX-OAK flight. That flight makes no sense since SWA flies back and forth all day long between multiple LA airports and Oakland.
I too will miss the Incinnatti-Milwaukee flight. They were the only airline to service that route.
@ Mark — I believe they were the only airline to service Incinnati airport. 🙂
@ Mark — I believe they were the only airline to service the Incinnati airport.
@Gary – fwiw, MSP-PBI is a seasonal route – it only shows up for a month or two each year – Are you saying it’s gone for good??? I mostly end up flying to FLL or (shudder…) MIA if I want a direct on a day other than M or F. PBI was a nice alternative. The “country club” airport…
@Gary I think you’re missing a 0 in the quote there or it’s a heck of a deal 🙂