In a rare win for travel enthusiasts, Alaska recently
announced changes to its award chart that actually increase the value of Alaska miles.
Back in November, American Airlines
announced changes to its award chart to take effect on March 22nd, 2016.
There was some bad news this past month, as American began pricing certain AAnytime awards at a higher rate, and United
announced changes to the award booking process and fees.
Not exact matches
Bushnell was set
to receive the Pioneer
Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, but the organization announced Wednesday it had changed its mind, saying the committee «believe their picks should reflect the values of today's game industry and will dedicate this year's award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.&r
Award at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, but the organization
announced Wednesday it had
changed its mind, saying the committee «believe their picks should reflect the values of today's game industry and will dedicate this year's
award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.&r
award to honor the pioneering and unheard voices of the past.»
Following an in - depth review by the Committee, the final ballot was sent for review
to more than 3,000 professionals from the... Continue reading Edison
Awards Announces Product Finalists that Will
Change the World
New York, NY — In honor of Thomas Edison's 170th birthday, the Edison
Awards Steering Committee is honored
to announce the 2017 Edison
Awards Finalists — the products,... Continue reading Edison
Awards Announces Product Finalists that Will
Change the World
Following an in - depth review by the Committee, the final ballot was sent for review
to more than 3,000 professionals from the fields of product... Continue reading Edison
Awards Announce Product Finalist that Will
Change the World
The state university system will no longer
award bonuses
to the system chancellor or campus presidents, a policy
change announced Thursday following criticism of a $ 75,000 bonus
awarded this year
to Chancellor Robert Caret.Caret, who took over...
The Organizers of the Annual TASTE
AWARDS and Academy of Media Tastemakers are pleased
to announce the following
changes to the
award nominee categories for the 8th Annual TASTE
AWARDS
In February, NIH issued a notice
announcing two major
changes to the agency's Pathway
to Independence
Award for postdocs, known as the K99 / R00 or «kangaroo» award, designed to satisfy the working group's recommendat
Award for postdocs, known as the K99 / R00 or «kangaroo»
award, designed to satisfy the working group's recommendat
award, designed
to satisfy the working group's recommendations.
Academy
Award - winner Natalie Portman was once slated
to play the good justice, but things have
changed since 2015 when casting was originally
announced, and a new star has stepped into -LSB-...]
As previously reported, Winfrey was
announced in advance as the winner of the 2018 Cecil B. de Mille
Award, and her speech promising
change to the state of gender politics and referencing Sidney Poitier's historic Oscar win and the late Recy Taylor's horrific 1940s rape case was so rousing it launched interest in an Oprah presidential campaign.
Academy
Award - winner Natalie Portman was once slated
to play the good justice, but things have
changed since 2015 when casting was originally
announced, and a new star has stepped into the limelight
to represent the Notorious R.B.G. on the silver screen.
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige
announced 172 winners of the Blue Ribbon Schools
awards last week, and promised
to provide more details soon about possible
changes to the program.
«Interest has been high since we
announced the
change from a dinner
to lunch
awards format and added the morning seminar.
Additionally, Delta has
announced that as of June 20, SkyMiles members will be able
to use their miles for a number of other products including upgrades
to some cabin classes, selecting preferred seats, ticket
change fees,
award ticket redeposit fees, same - day confirmed fees, and external ticket charges.
American Airlines surprised many today when it
announced several customer - friendly
changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex
Awards» will allow customers
to book one - way tickets for half the amount of miles needed for a round - trip ticket, and will also let passengers book multi-city itineraries and combine
award seats with non-
award seats.Under the old paradigm, passengers could only book round - trips
to and from the same city and were forced
to fly in an
award seat of equal value for both legs of the journey.This often made booking
award travel an exercise in futility — for example, an
award seat might be available only on an outbound journey, but not the return trip.But now passengers will be able
to fly
to New York in an
award seat, and return in a premium - fare seat if a return
award seat is not available.
American Airlines surprised many today when it
announced several customer - friendly
changes to its frequent - flier program.The new «One - Way Flex
Awards» will allow customers
to book one - way tickets for half the amount... Read More...
United Airlines
announced new
changes to its MileagePlus
award rules this morning, with lower
change / cancellation fees for many members as well as a twist
to how it lets people book open jaws and stopovers.
United Airlines recently
announced another round of
changes to its MileagePlus
award program.
Now that Alaska is sure the deal will go through, they have
announced more details on how the two airlines will operate going forward, what
changes will be made
to elite benefits, and how the mileage accrual and
award tickets will work.
American Airlines
announced several sweeping
changes to its loyalty program last year, including a devalued
award chart, fewer upgrades for elite members, and plans
to begin
awarding miles on the basis of revenue — rather than distance — sometime in 2016.
The Hyatt Credit Card gives out a free Category 4
award night each year, and it's become more difficult
to use each time category
changes are
announced and some favorite properties move from Category 4
to 5.
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer just
announced that it's planning
to implement a
change to it
award chart for the first time since 2012.
Cranky says that SkyMiles now requires members
to book those
award trips at least three weeks in advance, but it didn't bother
to announce the
change.
Although there have not been any
changes announced (yet...) for Alaska Airlines» partner
award charts, they
announced today some devaluations
to their own
award chart.
All that was
announced this week were
changes to how redeemable
award miles are earned, not the miles that count toward elite status.
Yesterday American Airlines
announced a huge number of
changes to their AAdvantage loyalty program, including much higher
award prices for their most valuable redemptions in business and first class.
Hilton Honors has
announced several big
changes to their program in recent months, including a new
award pricing system, a new option
to put your Diamond status on hold, and a plan
to let you redeem your points at Amazon.com.
Virgin Atlantic has
announced some big and wide - reaching
changes to rules governing how many miles Flying Club members will earn when flying on Delta, how many Flying Club miles members will need
to book
awards on Delta and how many Tier Points members will earn when flying on Delta.
I've already gone over the major devaluations that will happen, I've discussed the
award chart
changes, I've shown how the new earning rates will affect top - tier AAdvantage members quite badly and I've called out American Airlines for
announcing things without thinking things through or without having all the answers
to inevitable questions... but that's really just me letting off steam and, hopefully, providing readers with a few facts here and there as well.
Singapore Airlines has
announced some significant
changes to the cost of its
awards and, in an attempt
to soften the blow of the
award chart devaluation, it has also
announced that it will no longer levy fuel surcharges on
award bookings.
Malaysia Airlines also recently
announced changes to its Enrich program that will significantly increase
award cost of partner
awards.
Flying Blue, the frequent flyer program of Air France and KLM, has
announced changes to the program that impact
award ticket redemption.
Hyatt Gold passport has just
announced an upcoming
change to its
award chart.
Today, Singapore Airlines (with Silk Air)
announced changes to its fare classes, seat selection,
award upgrades, and baggage allowances that will take place on January 20, 2018, as well as
award fee
changes that will be enacted on March 1, 2018.
American
announced the
award chart
changes last fall, but many AAdvantage members might have overlooked them since the bigger part of that announcement concerned the program's coming transformation from a mileage - based
to a spending - based earning system starting later this year.
Mileage Plan, Alaska Airlines» frequent flyer program,
announced dramatic and sudden
changes to Emirates business - and first - class
award redemptions Thursday...
Marriott and SPG recently
announced the first major
changes to their
awards programs and the news is good!
In August, United
announced major
changes to award booking rules as well as
to their online booking engine.
Remember that the program did just
announce some positive
changes to its program earlier in the month, including the ability
to book Cash + Points
awards (in early 2016) and share points with friends and family.
United
announced a little while back they would be making a
change the MileagePlus program
to severely limit stopovers on round trip
award tickets.
↓ Take Only Two InterContinental
announced changes to their IHG Rewards Club terms and conditions restricting PointBreaks bookings
to two PointBreaks
award night reservations per hotel.
↓ MileagePlus Massacre
Changes to United MileagePlus
awards that were
announced in November 2013, came into effect early February, with partner
award flights in premium classes being significantly more expensive.
↓ Not Too Good The Hilton HHonors program also
announced that it will no longer make
award category adjustments just once per year, but will adjust hotels periodically throughout the year — the downside is that members will need
to keep up with all of the
changes.
Since American Airlines updated its
award chart and
announced several other program
changes after it mergered with US Airways and British Airways levies high fuel surcharges on transoceanic flights, LATAM Pass's distance - based oneworld
awards can be one of the most economical ways
to travel within the alliance.
In November, American Airlines
announced a massive devAAluation of its
award chart for
awards booked on or after March 22, 2016, negative
changes to status, and revenue - based
award mile - earning on paid flights.
Now American has decided
to kick us while we're down by
announcing their 2016 AAdvantage
award program
changes, which will go into effect on March 22, 2016.
Whether this
changes in future, such as the addition of quests like in Heroes of the Storm, or through credit
awards for game completions or milestones, remains
to be seen as there have been no
announced plans for these.
«UI Gets Grant
to Study Climate
Change --» The University of Idaho announced the largest single grant in its history Friday, a $ 20 million award to study and plan for how climate change will affect cereal grain production in the Pacific Northwest.»&
Change --» The University of Idaho
announced the largest single grant in its history Friday, a $ 20 million
award to study and plan for how climate
change will affect cereal grain production in the Pacific Northwest.»&
change will affect cereal grain production in the Pacific Northwest.»»