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Articles tagged “frequent flyer programs”

Airlines

British Airways Tests Award Seats Without Hefty Taxes

Could the end of the era of high award taxes and fees at British Airways be nigh? A new trial from the carrier is pushing the fees down on some award seats to only £1.

Grant Martin, Skift | 4 years ago

Airlines

Qantas Boldly Overhauls Loyalty Program, Resists Dynamic Pricing

Broad changes to the frequent flyer program employed by Qantas should largely be welcomed by the airline's road warriors, a rarity in today's airline loyalty industry.

Grant Martin, Skift | 4 years ago

Qantas Boldly Overhauls Loyalty Program, Resists Dynamic Pricing

Airlines

Lufthansa Will Be First European Airline to Adopt Dynamic Pricing for Award Seats

Award seats on Lufthansa will soon be priced according to market demand instead of a strict tiered system. Not all passengers are happy.

Grant Martin, Skift | 5 years ago

Lufthansa Will Be First European Airline to Adopt Dynamic Pricing for Award Seats

Airlines

Lufthansa Will Adopt Dynamic Award Pricing for Its Loyalty Program

In moving to a dynamic-based system for selling award seats, Lufthansa will be the first European carrier to formally adopt the model. But will the program look like its American cousins?

Grant Martin, Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

Alaska Airlines and El Al Team Up on Loyalty

Alaska is launching a loyalty partnership with yet another outlying international air carrier. At this rate, it doesn't need to fully join an airline alliance.

Grant Martin, Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

Why Southwest Needed to Deliver a Sweet Credit Card Promotion

Southwest lags behind some of its competitors in credit card revenue. But it is working on fixing that.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago

Why Southwest Needed to Deliver a Sweet Credit Card Promotion

Airlines

Is Southwest’s New Credit Card Companion Pass Offer Too Good to Be True?

New customers who apply for the Southwest credit card by Monday, February 11, and meet minimum spending requirements will earn one of the airline's companion passes for the rest of the year. The deal sounds too good to be true. But Southwest knows what it's doing. This is probably smart business.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago

Is Southwest’s New Credit Card Companion Pass Offer Too Good to Be True?

Airlines

Air Canada Completes Bringing Aeroplan Loyalty Program Into Its Fold

After a year of uncertainty, frequent flyers on Air Canada ended up almost right where they started at the beginning of the century: with the airline independently owning and operating Aeroplan.

Grant Martin, Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

Amadeus and Points.com Partner to Scale Loyalty Tech for Airlines

This deal is noteworthy because it represents a recent industry shift in the gravity of airline sales efforts. Work that used to happen on computers that interact mainly with travel agencies is now shifting toward computers that mainly power an airline's brand.com site and other direct sales channels.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 5 years ago

Amadeus and Points.com Partner to Scale Loyalty Tech for Airlines

Airlines

U.S. Airlines Report Sky-High Profit From Frequent Flyer Programs

This analyst has a point. Perhaps Wall Street is undervaluing airlines because investors don't know the full value of airline frequent flyer programs. But it's not clear anything will change.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago

U.S. Airlines Report Sky-High Profit From Frequent Flyer Programs