Wells Fargo is making several significant changes to its rewards program, including ending combined rewards accounts, eliminating reward gifting, and discontinuing automatic redemptions. While many cardholders may never have used these features, anyone with multiple Wells Fargo cards or plans to transfer points to another cardmember should take notice before the changes take effect. The post Major
Philippine Airlines is joining oneworld next year, finally putting one of the better-hidden Asia award opportunities within reach of American Airlines flyers. Its seats have often been unusually available but hard for U.S. travelers to book; once PAL enters oneworld, those awards should become cheaper and easier to access—until everyone else starts chasing them too.
In this week's News Roundup, we look at a major Choice Privileges devaluation in Japan, Hawaiian Airlines eliminating complimentary economy meals, British Airways' parent company's ambitious plans for Avios, Tether's new gold-backed payment card, and a review of Alila Marea Beach Resort Encinitas. The post News Roundup: Choice Japan Devaluation, Hawaiian Cuts Free Meals, Avios Profits, Gold Backed
A good week around here: René turned a voluntary bump at Houston’s IAH into a 98-inch big screen TV, the SkyMiles co-branded card lineup got a meaningful refresh worth knowing about, American quietly suspended six routes while calling it something else entirely, I recorded a national commercial from a Delta Sky Club phone booth, and […] The post Delta Voluntary Bump Scores a 98-Inch TV, SkyMiles C
Choice Privileges has majorly devalued points redemptions in Japan (mostly Tokyo, Osaka & Fukuoka). Prices for most properties in these locations used to be 8,000 points per night, this then increased to 10,000 then 12,000 and now we are seeing prices of up to 25,000-30,000. Hopefully anybody that transferred points before Citi nuked the transfer […]
Philippine Airlines and the Oneworld Alliance announced today at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Annual General Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that the Philippine flag carrier had been invited to join the alliance. Philippine Airlines has recently signed frequent flier agreements with both […]
For the past few weeks, expiring credit card credits (particularly hotel credits) have been on my mind almost non-stop. With about three weeks left to go in the first half of the year, I still have yet to use the following: Use by June 30, 2026: Amex Fine Hotels + Resorts® credits for the first […] The post The clock ticks for semi-annual credits, Citi cancels more than Custom Cash, cards for dome
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