When will it be safe to commit to big travel expenses? When will it be safe to travel? And do we really know the answer to those questions??
DLD 190: Get your engine running, head out on the skyway
- April 26, 2018
- Tagged as: AAdvantage, Air New Zealand, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, awards, business aviation, business class, Cal Jet, Cancun, CFM, CLD, engines, General Electric, LAS, Las Vegas, marriott, Marriott Rewards, merger, Mexico, MIA, Miami, Norwegian, Polaris, rewards, Rolls Royce, Safran, San Diego, spg, starwood, Starwood Preferred Guest, Sun Country, Swaziland, United Airlines
Aircraft engines are causing more than their share of issues these days. Failures on the ground and in the air are raising lots of questions. We’re mostly about asking them, not answering them in this episode. Plus cabin retrofits, new planes, routes and more.
DLD 131: Domestic Considerations
- March 2, 2017
- Tagged as: AAdvantage, business class, elite status, immigration, Norwegian, podcast, United, United Airlines
United has a brand new 77W with fancy new seats in business class. It also is adding a bunch of routes with CRJ-200s on domestic flights. Economy class travel is not so great.
DLD 58: Adventures in IROPS
- July 18, 2014
- Tagged as: A330neo, A380, AAdvantage, Airbus, American Airlines, awards, Etihad, Gold Passport, hyatt, jetblue, Qatar, rewards, United, United Airlines
Things don’t always go as planned. We usually recover better than others, even if there is a bit of chaos involved. Still, it is not too common that a simple round-trip requires 10-ish different bookings to make it happen. Oopsie.
American Airlines is launching twice-daily non-stop service between Chicago and Portland, Oregon on 12 June 2013. To celebrate they’ve loaded a bonus miles promotion into the system offering double miles (100% bonus over the base…
Does it actually count as breaking news if it happened 2 days ago and we’re just reporting it now? What if it probably isn’t all that important of a story anyways? What say ye, listeners?…
Welcome to episode 22.5 of the PointsHoarder podcast. Why the half number? Mostly because I rounded up from where it probably belongs. One of the problems with a show about travel put on by folks…
