Tim Winship
Tim Winship
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If you had a ticket in hand, then there's a chance that another airline would honor that ticket. It would certainly be on a space-available basis and they'd probably charge a fee.
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I think it's pretty much inarguable that the value of frequent-flyer miles is on the decline.
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Having a credit card associated with a frequent-flier program is a real money maker. Typically, airlines charge the credit-card company one or two cents for each mile issued. That can equate to millions of dollars.
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The big issue is award availability. Whenever you have a capacity reduction, that inevitably translates directly into fewer award seats, and I have no doubt that will happen in this case.
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I welcome the idea of an airline giving serious attention to the nutritional specifications of these snacks.
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A lot of consumers use the term 'bait and switch' when they hear this.
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At some point the new labor force will get up to speed and will be able to kind of truly replace the labor that has been lost through this strike. But that's probably a couple of months out.
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The value of a frequent-flyer ticket at the end of the day depends on the value of a revenue ticket that you might have bought had you not used your miles,
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There is something deep in the human psyche that keeps people, myself included, in sort of a hoarding mode. You have to overcome that.