On Alaska, you need 20,000 elite qualifying miles (EQMs) in a year to get to the lowest level of elite status, MVP. Or I could do 40,000 and try for Gold on partner American instead. It is absolutely ...

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As Delta says in its current policy before listing all those reasons I mentioned above: To qualify for a complimentary change, the schedule change or irregular operation must meet one of the following ...

The airlines in the US have developed into a special kind of company… one that consistently loses money on its core business but makes up for it on financial services. This is thanks to the way ...

In a perfect world, the idea here is that when interchange fees drop, that’s money that gets returned to the consumer in the form of lower prices on goods. After all, the businesses will keep a higher ...

To paraphrase the Beatles, they get by with a little help from their friends. This airline has good friends that keep pumping money into the airline, mostly named Bjørn. They’ve also made a new friend ...

Thanks to Southwest’s elimination of its differentiators, both United CEO Scott Kirby and Delta President Glen Hauenstein said last week that in competitive markets, Southwest’s customers are up for ...

Cranky on the Web: So Much Southwest + Demand is Dropping + CNA Wrap Video ...

What Happened to Southwest Airlines? A Deep Dive Into Its Decline – Fodor’s Travel Former Southwest employee Scott Laird did his own deep dive into the decline of Southwest for his role writing for ...