Update 3/10/2020: United has also expanded the waived change fees to include flights purchased on or before March 2 for travel from March 9 to April 30, 2020. This allows you to change your...
Hyatt has once again shown why they have such a highly regarded loyalty program. They announced last night that they'll be awarding 10,000 World of Hyatt bonus points for any guests that booked a...
United was the last of the main US airlines to announce that they'd waive change fees for flights booked during March, but they're sadly first with an adjustment to their schedule change policy and...
There are multiple data points at Flyertalk and there is some discussion at reddit about a possible devaluation of FlexPerks Rewards. Since 2018, FlexPerks redemptions made via Real-Time Mobile Rewards have been at a rate of 1.5c...
Avianca has today (3/4/20) begun selling basic economy style fares on flights to and from the United States. They are marketing their flights in "sizes" from Extra-Small ro XXL, which will indicate how much is...
Update 3/13/20: Alaska has now expanded this policy quite a bit as follows (See our Coronavirus cancellation policies complete guide for more):
Link to waiver policy
For tickets purchased on or before February 26, 2020 for...
2020 is the year of the rat, but sadly American Express is trying to also make it the year of the RAT.
Amex's Rewards Abuse Team (RAT) is starting to send out notifications to cardholders...
Hotels.com gift cards can once again be combined online. I'm not sure exactly when this returned, but that's an awesome development as it means that you can take advantage of various smaller gift card deals...
In a surprise move that I don't think anybody saw coming, as reported by The Points Guy this morning, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines are scrapping plans to reduce their partnership and rather expanding...
Hyatt category changes for 2020 have been announced today and will take effect on March 22, 2020. In total, 117 properties increase in price and 100 decrease in price. That sounds pretty mild (especially in...
Delta Platinum and Delta Reserve Status Boosts are now being granted mid-cycle. As a reminder, Delta Reserve cardholders earn 15,000 Medallion Qualifying Miles (MQMs) towards elite status with each $30K of spend, up to...
Late last month, Staples offered fee-free $100 Mastercard Gift Cards online for a few hours before the deal sold out (we reported it here). I have not yet had any issues (I used one...
Chase has added terms to some referral links indicating that you are not eligible for a referral bonus if you use your own referral URL to apply for another card. While the language doesn't...
At the end of last year, Greg, Nick and I made predictions for what we thought 2020 would bring in the world of credit cards and loyalty programs for hotels and airlines. One of...