News and notes from around the interweb:
- Man used a master key at a Marriott Residence Inn to steal from guest hotel rooms
- The ability to book Thai Airways and TAP Air Portugal awards with United miles has returned.
- The Trump SoHo hotel was struggling but turned around its fortunes by dropping the Trump name
- Kenya is considering nationalizing money-losing Kenya Airways yet another carrier Delta is happy to partner with and doesn’t mind subsidies for. Subsidies for me, but not for thee.
- Spirit Airlines plotted its comeback from a conference room in Miramar. It worked
Copyright: boarding1now / 123RF Stock Photo - Don’t want to spend money to buy back your American Airlines elite status, or buy up to a higher level? They’re now making offers to let you redeem miles. Here they’re copying Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan.
130.5K miles: American Airlines elites received status upgrade offers for purchase with cash or miles. Offer varies by how Airline values member. pic.twitter.com/ZrtA7SJF1b
— VNI Television (@VNITelevision) February 27, 2019
Yikes, more evidence AA is thinking about moving to a fixed redemption value on miles. It seems like they’re trying to just make that a bit higher than Delta, like 1.2 cents per mile versus Delta’s efforts to get it to 1 cent.
@Aaron: “Yikes, more evidence AA is thinking about moving to a fixed redemption value on miles. It seems like they’re trying to just make that a bit higher than Delta, like 1.2 cents per mile versus Delta’s efforts to get it to 1 cent.”
The offer I got to buy back PLT had it at just over 150,000 miles – well under 1 cent per mile.
@Mike: “The offer I got to buy back PLT had it at just over 150,000 miles – well under 1 cent per mile.”
Wow, that’s terrible!
I got AA offer to buy Gold for 75k in miles. #datapoint.
The AA upgrade status with miles offer is extremely poor value. Less than 1c/mile.
Early in the year was offered complimentary Platinum status and 20 upgrades through May of this year. Did not respond, no thanks. Not until Dip Parker is gone and AAdvantage is improved. Not worth it for FREE.
Wife and I have been Plat with AA for several years but due to their stupid EQDs and burning some miles to Spain instead of buying tickets, we lost all status after Jan 31. But we keep getting emails wanting us to buy gold for $645 or 64.5k miles and plat for $1445 or 144.5k miles. I am just going to ignore it and go with the flow this year. Of course, I never get the emails offering free plat for 3 months or whatever it is others get.