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DLD 450: Wait, there’s now lounge elite status??

• September 21, 2023
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 737 MAX 8, 757-200, A350, Allegiant, American Express, Boeing, co-brand, cobrand, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, elite status, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, lounge, lounges, medallion, merger, Mexico, Mexico City, New York City, podcast, premium cabin, Premium Economy, seating, seats, Sky Club, SkyMiles, slots, Spirit Airlines, Swiss, Trip Report, United Airlines, Upgrade, Vietnam Airlines

Delta made waves with its SkyMiles/SkyClub rules changes last week. Plus, new seats, new routes, and an end to revenge.

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DLD 419: Where are the mascots?

• February 9, 2023
• Tagged as: 747, Airbus, American Express, AUS, Austin, Avelo, Bali, bankruptcy, British Airways, China, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, DPS, E195-E2, FedEx, FlyBE, Flyr Norwegian, Frontier, inaugural, lounge, lounges, podcast, Porter Air, Qatar Airways, Sky Club, Southwest Airlines, Trip Report, Virgin Atlantic

Competing university mascots at an inaugural flight? Sure, why not. It is Delaware, after all.

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DLD 412: Dollar dollar bills, y’all

• December 8, 2022
• Tagged as: 737 MAX, 787, Air France, Air India, Airbus, American Airlines, Avelo, award, British Airways, certification, cobrand, congress, credit card, credit cards, Delta Air Lines, FAA, first class, hydrogen, JAL, jetblue, JFK, JFK Airport, lounges, merger, Norse Atlantic, podcast, reward, singapore airlines, Sky Club, TATL, Thai Airways, Transatlantic, union, United Airlines, Vistara

Singapore Airlines is out spending cash like it is 2019 again, so that seems to be good news for other airlines.

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DLD 384: Competition great and small

• May 12, 2022
• Tagged as: 777X, A321XLR, Air France, Airbus, Avelo, Avianca, Boeing, Breeze Airways, cargo, Colombia, crash, credit cards, Egyptair, elite status, freighter, lounge, lounges, Lufthansa, MCO, Orlando, Russia, Sky Club, Turkish Airlines, Viva

Mergers generally reduce competition. Upstarts increase it. And somewhere in the middle, we like to talk about all of options.

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DLD 186: My face is my passport; verify me

• March 29, 2018
• Tagged as: biometrics, Delta, Delta Air Lines, Laudamotion, LAX, London, Los Angeles, lounges, Lufthansa, merger, Niki, Norwegian, Ryanair, Sky Club

Biometrics are big these days. But what benefits do they bring to travelers? Ryanair makes a move in Austria and United makes more cuts to Polaris. Plus plenty more…

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PointsHoarder 43: The Apology

• January 23, 2014
• Tagged as: awards, Delta, lounge, lounges, PaxEx, podcast, rewards, Sky Club, United, United Airlines

Sometimes it is hard to say “I’m sorry.” In this episode, however, we prove that all of us can manage the phrase quite easily. See, it turns out that in PointsHoarder 42 I gave some…

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PointsHoarder 27: Breaking news!

• May 30, 2013
• Tagged as: AAdvantage, american, American Airlines, Avios, British Airways, Delta, elite status, EWR, JFK, LAN, New York City, Newark, Oneworld, Sky Club, United, United Airlines

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?…