Dots, Lines & Destinations

Sorry we’re a little late to publish this time around; I blame the Hilton Garden Inn – Chelsea and their crappy internet connection for making the editing more work than usual. And now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, on to the details behind Episode 37 of the PointsHoarder podcast. American Airlines is […]

      

The past two weeks have seen a ton of news in the airline and frequent flyer space, so much that even after we cut out a bunch of stuff we wanted to talk about we still managed to ramble on longer than ever before. Sorry about that. This week’s episode is near an hour long […]

      

Welcome to lifetime status on British Airways. That is, if you can swing it. The lead story in this week’s edition is the announcement by BA’s Executive Club program that they are now offering both Gold and Gold Guest status lifetime qualification levels. The lower Gold level requires 35,000 tier points to earn; that’s ~23 […]

      

Lots of “new” news to share in this week’s episode, and that’s mostly a good thing compared to some of the episodes we’ve had which were all about downgrades. Don’t worry – there are still a couple negative bits here, too – but not as many as there are positives. First up, a couple new […]

      

Nearly everyone will agree that devaluation to loyalty programs (or just about anything else) sucks. And this week, sadly, there’s a lot of suckage to talk about. Air Canada downgraded their upgrade program, adding co-pays for many customers and making the certs harder to use in many scenarios. Delta has downgraded their award chart, jacking […]

      

No, really, we included a credit card link in the show notes today! Of course, ours is not an affiliate link and I actually don’t think it is the one you should use, but we’ll get to that in a minute… And now, on to the topics of discussion in this week’s episode: American Airlines […]

      

Gracias por escuchar el episodio de esta semana de PointsHoarder. This main focus this week is on a few different partnerships and how those relationships make things either good or bad for consumers. Usually it is good, but not always. First on that list, United has four different partnerships which came up in the past […]

      

It should come as no surprise that the lead story on this week’s episode is the lead aviation-related story in the news, the crash of Asiana 214 at SFO last Saturday. We don’t dwell too much on it, though there is some discussion of the event itself as well as the media responses to it. […]

      

So, how much are you spending on elite status these days? And does it matter if your travels are paid for by an expense account? With the announcement last week by United that they are joining Delta in tracking spend for elite status in 2015 the dollars involved have become a much more significant topic […]

      

Lots of “new” going on in this episode, which I suppose is a good thing. After all, if we were talking about old stuff it probably wouldn’t be quite as interesting. Much of the discussion was about two new partnership announcements made in recent weeks. The first is the deal between Hyatt and MGM’s Las […]