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  1. Devaluation

    American Airlines Will Open New JFK Grab-And-Go Lounge With Hot Food And Barista Coffee (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    American Airlines has opened its second Provisions by Admirals Club space at New York JFK between gates 12 and 14. The 3,700-square-foot grab-and-go lounge restores a main concourse Admirals Club-style option for many JFK travelers, with hot and cold food, barista-made Lavazza coffee, bottled drinks, and the same access rules as regular Admirals Clubs.

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    • American AAdvantage
  2. Devaluation

    FAA Moves To End America’s 50-Year Supersonic Flight Ban So Boomless Jets Can Fly Over Land (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    The FAA is proposing to replace America’s blanket ban on overland supersonic flight with a ground-impact standard, allowing aircraft to exceed Mach 1 if they do not create a sonic boom at the surface. That could help companies like Boom and Hermeus, but it does not solve the hardest problems: engines, certification, airport noise rules, fleet economics, and finding enough premium-demand routes to make faster flying commercially viable.

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  4. Devaluation

    Hyatt Is Charging $3,690 To Cancel A “Free” Hotel Stay. There’s A Hidden Cash Trap When You Book With Points (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    A Hyatt member canceled a two-night “free” award stay, got their points back, and then received a $3,690 cash cancellation bill. Hyatt’s policy can return points while charging an undisclosed cash forfeiture amount when an award stay is canceled too late, creating a hidden risk for anyone booking hotel rooms with points or free night certificates.

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    • World of Hyatt
  5. Devaluation

    American Airlines Offered Just $25 After Screaming Child Kept Business Class Passengers Awake For 9.5 Hours (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    An American Airlines business class passenger says a screaming child kept him awake for 9.5 hours after he paid $1,800 per person to upgrade, and American offered just a $25 travel credit. The incident raises the obvious debate: children have just as much right to premium cabins as anyone else, but if an airline chooses to compensate a ruined overnight business class experience, $25 feels more insulting than helpful.

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    • American AAdvantage
  6. Devaluation

    American Airlines Took Away The Tool Pilots Used To See Who Might Miss A Connection (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    American Airlines has reportedly removed broad employee access to a boarding tool pilots and flight attendants used to see boarding progress, inbound connections, likely misconnects, elite passengers, and gate details in one place. The read-only tool could help crews take care of customers, but American has long preferred centralized control over holding flights, even as it says it wants better customer-service scores.

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    • American AAdvantage
  7. Devaluation

    Hilton Employee Says Hotel Created Fake Guests To Get Paid More For Your Points Stays (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    A Hilton employee says their hotel created fake occupied rooms before night audit to push occupancy over the threshold where Hilton Honors reimburses more for award stays. The alleged scheme may sound like inside-baseball accounting, but it matters to members: inflated reimbursement costs ultimately make free nights more expensive in points.

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    • Hilton Honors
  8. Devaluation

    Hertz Renter Actually Deserved Arrest And Passenger Says American Airlines Broke Her Arm (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    A Hertz renter allegedly stole the car and actually deserved arrest, American Airlines is again accused of forcing gate-checked bags despite empty overhead bins. Also: hotel-room lasagna, Air France’s apparent ground A/C advantage, and a new lawsuit claiming an American Airlines employee broke a disabled passenger’s arm while providing mobility assistance in Costa Rica.

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    • American AAdvantage
    • Air France-KLM Flying Blue
  9. Devaluation

    United Airlines Baggage And Check-in Workers Reject Contract As Members Rebel Against Their Union (opens View From The Wing in a new tab)

    United’s largest IAM-represented work groups have rejected a proposed contract, including baggage, ramp, check-in, customer service, and load-planning workers. The vote is as much a rebuke of the union as the airline, with members objecting to healthcare costs, scope, retirement, scheduling protections, outsourcing risk, and raises they believe fall short once the deal stretches to 2031.

    View From The Wing
    • United MileagePlus
  10. Devaluation

    Is it still worth collecting Hilton points on stays? (opens Frequent Miler in a new tab)

    Now that Hilton points are worth far less than they once were, a reader emailed us this week to ask the following: With Hilton points now devalued to a 0.35 cents per point Reasonable Redemption Value, is it time to stop accumulating Hilton points altogether, and book all Hilton rooms through Rove? I don’t mean […] The post Is it still worth collecting Hilton points on stays? appeared first on Frequent Miler . Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express, Capital On

    Frequent Miler
    • Amex Membership Rewards
    • Hilton Honors

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