Hyatt Extending Elite Status, Free Night Certificates, Suite Upgrades & Club Access Awards, Waiving...
Hyatt has come out of the blocks early and announced a set of incredibly customer-friendly policies. They'll be extending your existing status for another year, while also extending the life of your free night...
Amex extending time to meet welcome bonuses (applies retroactively also)
The Points Pundit over at Travel Update made a nice find: if you have been or are approved between 12/1/19 and 5/31/20 for a new Amex account for which you're eligible for a welcome...
Chase offering $100 statement credit for some CSR holders
Chase is offering a $100 statement credit to some Sapphire Reserve cardholders whose annual fees have recently posted. That's awesome. They are doing this by sending a secure message with the subject, "“Important: A $100...
Update: Hilton restores suite upgrade language for Diamond members
Update 3/31/20: Hilton reached out to let us know that this issue was a copy error. It has since been updated and the site once again reflects the program terms, stating that Diamond members...
Marriott Now Offering Up To 30 Elite Nights From Credit Cards (15 Personal +...
The end of the world really must be nigh. Marriott has made a change to its loyalty program and - for once - it's a positive change. That's because you can now earn 30...
United waiving redeposit fees for cancelled flights
Over the past couple of days, we have seen several reports in our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group indicating that United is now waiving award redeposit fees on cancelled flights. To be clear, to...
IHG extending free night certs by request. Hopefully they do better.
There have been data points reported on several blogs over the past few days of IHG extending free night certificate by six months for some customers. We have received similar reports from readers in...
Possible statement credit in place of $15 Uber credit
There have been several data points in various groups and blogs over the past few days indicating that Amex has offered some Platinum card holders (personal / consumer version) a $15 statement credit in...
Hilton extending status until 2022, pausing point expiration, flexible bookings
Hilton Honors has announced their plans to extend member status and pause points expiration and the news is very good: all members whose status was scheduled to be downgraded on March 31st will automatically receive...
Best Western suspends use of points toward gift cards or merchandise
Best Western has posted an announcement on its site indicating that they have suspended the redemption of points for gift cards or merchandise due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, they are not currently extending the...
Some Hawaii properties closing and cancelling reservations
Reader usernamedchuck reached out to let us know that his upcoming stay next month at the Club Wyndham Bali Hai Villas in Kauai was proactively cancelled by the hotel and it looks like the...
Marriott downgrades status, maybe no soft landings after all
Marriott has updated member status for 2019 activity and many of those members whose 2019 activity did not meet status requirements are finding that their status has downgraded accordingly. While some have apparently gotten...
(Update: Filing extended to 7/15) IRS extends payment deadline 90 days
Update 3/23/20: In case you missed it, the IRS has also extended the deadline to file. You now have until July 15, 2020 to file and pay 2019 taxes. This applies to all individual...
Delta extends certificates and credits
Delta Airlines has announced that they are extending $200 Delta travel vouchers and Companion Certificates. While the extension isn't terribly long -- only until the end of 2020 for those originally expiring before June...
