News and notes from around the interweb:
- A great United Airlines story for a change.
- Up to 3000 Marriott points per night at 27 hotels (HT: Frequent Flyer Bonuses)
- New airline customer service policies should be viewed as tactical moves to stave off regulation. In highly regulated industries you aren’t the main customer…
- St. Louis airport will be permitted to explore privatization
- Delta talks about its revenue premium over competitors, United’s Scott Kirby doesn’t think that’s a meaningful metric because of all the ways you can game those numbers (though Delta explicitly isn’t doing the things Kirby gives as examples). Kirby prefers margin premium although of course Delta earns a margin premium over United as well.
“You can make your revenue premium go up by taking a row of seats off airplanes, for example, and that makes your RASM get higher,” he said. “You could fly only first-class seats on airplanes, and that will make your RASM higher and will give you a revenue premium and have a real cost problem.”
- Delta is finally testing letting customers pre-select inflight meal choices something American rolled out in 2012.
- The US State Department closed its Miami passport office with no notice telling folks who had appointments scheduled they could just go to New Orleans…
Only 2 of the 27 Marriott hotels provide 3000 points per night, and you have to book a special, more expensive rate code. Your title “3000 Bonus Marriott Points PER NIGHT,” especially with the PER NIGHT in capital letters, is pure clickbait nonsense. You are such a manipulative blogger.
A great United story? I guess you missed the one where they killed a rabbit.
@Jolly – http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/travel/bunny-death-united-trnd/
My wife puts up with me in this hobby but rarely participates (other than going on trips). She shared that with me last night and asked me how UA is doing 🙂