RMF and CLV – Wharton marketing professor defends Delta’s mileage changes
RMF: Recency, Monetary value and Frequency CLV: Client Lifetime Value These are two of the technical terms that Wharton Marketing professor Peter Fader uses in…
Elite Status
All about Elite Status
2013 – A (Personal) Travel Year in Review
2013 was an interesting year. Both for me personally from a travel perspective and also for the travel industry. Several firsts and several changes –…
Alliance Wars: The post US Airways – American Airlines world – Part I
There are three alliances in the world of Air Travel: Star Alliance OneWorld and SkyTeam Of these three, Star Alliance has been a very dominant…
Tracking a United International BusinessFirst Upgrade
On a recent flight to Tokyo, I used a United Global Premier Upgrade (GPU) to request an upgrade for myself to BusinessFirst. The upgrade did…
CPUs, RPUs, GPUs: all the United PUs (Premier Upgrades)
One the benefits of being an Elite on an airline is the ability to get upgraded to upper class seats on flights. Anyone can use…
Lifetime Miles
I logged into United.com this morning and saw my lifetimes miles total – 500,024. I am half-way to become a Million Miler! For United MileagePlus,…
Last minute Elite qualification with United Choices from Chase
Chase Card holders with most United Credit Cards need not lose hope. If you are within 5,000 PQM (Elite miles) of reaching your Elite miles…
Frontier, US Airways and Lufthansa – Cards with additional miles for Balance Transfers
I found three new credit cards that not only have a sign-up bonus, but also offer extra miles for transferring you balance. This is a…
Airline news from around the web
I have been traveling. I will post an article on my recent travel soon. I did write some on the flights, but the posts are…
Reader question: What is ‘minimum miles’?
In my last post I wrote about earning a minimum of 500 miles for flights taken. This prompted a question from a reader – what…
