Congress: Please Don’t Try to Protect Us from Airlines By Limiting Fees or Increasing Seat Sizes
July 10, 2017
Dear Senators and Congressmen,
According to a report Friday on thehill.com, after years of failing to pass seat-size regulations because of Republic opposition, seat-size language has now been added to House and Senate bills that are very likely to pass:
The Republican-led Congress is warming up to the idea of creating new consumer protections for travelers, an idea considered controversial just over a year ago.
GOP lawmakers rejected past efforts to establish minimum seat sizes and rein in airline fees, but provisions to do just that were easily added to must-pass aviation legislation this year...
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The Myth of the 10 Cents Per Mile Award and Why Miles Are Most Valuable to the Rich
January 8, 2015
The other day, I booked myself a direct flight from Tampa to Charlotte with 4,500 British Airways Avios and $5.60.
Deals Bloggers Have Killed and Will Kill
July 11, 2014
Yesterday I wrote about the death of the Guam-in-United-States mistake on the Avianca LifeMiles award chart. Until yesterday, we could book awards to Hawaii, Japan, or Guam for 12,500 miles or less than $200 each way.
I thought that Avianca finally realized their mistake after months of it being openly discussed online, but the real cause might have been a Department of Transportation complaint filed by a miles blogger.
United,Delta,milevalue vs.,Rapid Rewards
Airlines are Responding to Bank, Accounting, and Consultant Pressures by Opening Up More Award Space
May 14, 2014
According to the Wall Street Journal, airlines are opening up more award space this year compared to last year because of pressure from banks, accounting rules, and consultant studies.
In the short term, that's good for us. More award space: woohoo!
But in the long run, these pressures could cause more airlines to move to revenue-based frequent flyer programs. Revenue-based redemptions: boohoo!
Every year IdeaWorks comes out with one of the worst-conceived studies imaginable in an attempt to quantify which frequent flyer programs make redemptions the easiest.
AAdvantage,milevalue vs.,Avios
Three Reasons Los Angeles to London is the Best Value Transatlantic Flight
March 20, 2014
Yesterday I wrote that The Best Value Flight Across the Atlantic Has Almost No Premium Award Space.
milevalue vs.,Devaluation,Delta
The New York Times Understands Miles a Lot Less When It Doesn’t Quote Us
March 3, 2014
The New York Times just ran a really bad article about Delta's move to a revenue-based frequent flyer program in 2015.
I'm going to delve into the Times article since many MileValue readers discovered the blog from a New York Times article ("How to Get a Seat Out of Your Award Miles") in which I was quoted extensively.
milevalue vs.,American Express
Should You Get the 75k AMEX Biz Gold or the 50k AMEX Biz Gold?
September 12, 2012
Today (9/12/12) only, American Express is doing one of its once-every-few-months, one-day-only 75k Membership Rewards sign up bonuses for the American Express Gold Business card.
I won't give a full rundown of the rules and benefits of the card--you can get that from thepointsguy--but I will answer the following question: should you get the 75k sign up bonus on this card or the 50k sign up bonus?
If the answer seems obvious, it is not.
How Much is a Mile Worth? How Much is My Map Worth?
August 21, 2012
There's an ongoing discussion in the miles-sphere about the value of a mile started when Gary and Ben disagreed about the value of a Hilton Point.