Stephen Trent, Citi’s MD on Americas Airlines, compares discount airlines to bigger carriers, and how they’re navigating debt, labor & supply issues.
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United Airlines is paring back rewards for travelers who don’t have its credit card in MileagePlus overhaul
No United Airlines credit card? Soon you’ll earn fewer miles than other travelers. United is overhauling its MileagePlus frequent flyer program to reward travelers with more miles and lower redemption rates, including for some of its long-haul business-class seats — if they have one of the airline’s credit cards. It’s the latest move by an […]
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Vietnamese airlines sign deals for nearly 100 Boeing jets during party chief’s Washington visit
Officials from the U.S. and Vietnam, including the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party, To Lam, witnessing a deal signed by Stephanie Pope, president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and Dang Ngoc Hoa, chairman of the Board of Directors of Vietnam Airlines, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 19. Three Vietnamese airlines announced […]
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From Hyatt to Holiday Inn, America’s free hotel breakfast is facing a K-shaped economic threat
Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty Images At some point in the 1980s and 90s, the free hot breakfast became a staple of the hospitality industry. At many a Holiday Inn or Hampton Inn, the lobby at 8 a.m. is a pinwheel of pajama-clad kids, frazzled parents, and solo business travelers jockeying for […]
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