if you demonstrate your loyalty to the airlines, they are happy during these challenging times to give travelers something unprecedented.” ExpertFlyer offers a shortcut for finding award seats when flights fly full As an example, Hyatt, just yesterday, sent me a letter that they have a 50% acceleration for some of their destinations, and American Airlines is also offering a platinum mileage run. There are a lot of promotions going on right now as we speak and what that means for us is, we can get a higher tier status for a lower investment.
“My first bit of advice is to subscribe to all of the hotel and airline loyalty program newsletters that you’re interested in. You probably know that if you’re a Hyatt globalist, you can earn American Airlines Platinum status in a matter of a couple of flights.” Tips from App in the Air Founder That said, now is a great time to get that first-level status. I’m seeing a lot of promotions, which are designed to maintain customer loyalty. “We are loyal customers who are worth that much in total.
“This is what we are worth to the investors and to the struggling airlines doing the borrowing,” says Bayram. It’s estimated that the total valuation of the top four loyalty programs is something in the neighborhood of $70 billion, according to Bayram. After all, many airlines use their loyalty programs or customer base as collateral for loans. Bayram says airlines are doing their best right now to make sure that customers remain loyal. Sometimes it’s better to just pay even if you have enough points, and save them for something that’s going to be more of a bang for your points buck.” Boosting your status & rewards pointsīayram Annakov, founder and CEO of App in the Air, runs a personal travel assistant app that is used by more than 6 million travelers, and he also flies about 500 hours a year. Conversely, sometimes people cash in 30,000 miles for a ticket that’s $150 bucks and that’s not a good idea, because then you’re devaluing your miles and they’re only worth half a cent each. “If you can get two or three cents a mile, then you’re coming out ahead and you should grab it. “Shoot for a minimum of a penny a mile,” says Tim. The major carriers have all gone with dynamic pricing on points and miles the same way they have with actual flight prices.” Tim’s rule of thumb for overcoming loyalty point devaluation Unfortunately, they’ve thrown that out the window.
You could get pretty much anywhere in the world for 60,000 in economy class. It used to be that you knew you needed 35,000 miles (when they were still called miles) to get to Central America from say, California. “Basically, most of these US-based programs are no longer transparent according to any published chart that outlines how many points you need to get to destination A or B. That’s great for their business, but it’s not so great for us travelers, because our points get devalued in the process. “Similar to Uber surge pricing, the airlines are going to try to squeeze you for as much as they can when demand is high and then give you a nice break when demand is low.
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“I’m always trying to find how the system works and how to get the most out of it as a normal person, as a normal traveler. “I’m not one of those business road warriors who’s always racking up hundreds of thousands of miles, but I have been in American’s AAdvantage program since the 1980s, so I’ve definitely seen the evolution of legacy carrier loyalty programs,” says Tim Leffel, travel expert, author, and blogger at.
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