Emirates has recently stopped applying fuel surcharge to tickets, which means also Skywards has become a great opportunity to use your miles for redemptions and not just upgrades.
Emirates stops charging huge fuel surcharge on redemption tickets
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Act Fast: Status Match to Qatar Airways’ Privilege Club for 12 months
A new Qatar Airways Status Match opportunity is available through May 28, 2020. The provisions are a straight-up status match for 12 months, and an opportunity to re-qualify for status at half the usual number of points required.
Act Fast: Status Match to Qatar Airways’ Privilege Club for 12 months
A new Qatar Airways Status Match opportunity is available through May 20, 2020. The provisions are a straight-up status match for 12 months, and an opportunity to re-qualify for status at half the usual number of points required.
Avianca files for bankruptcy protection; LifeMiles are safe as of now
Avianca, the Latin American Star Alliance member airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This means the airline will operate but will restructure its balance sheet. However, this does not seem to have any impact on the airline’s loyalty programme, LifeMiles, at the moment.
Club Vistara pauses issuing ticket vouchers to co-brand card holders
Vistara has paused the issuance of free tickets to its co-brand cardholders due to the CoronaVirus pandemic.
Club Vistara Update: validity of Points and Vouchers extended; tricky one on Status assessment!
A new Club Vistara Update has been rolled out to members, which accounts for the CoronaVirus related grounding. The airline will reinstate expired points and vouchers for four months, and also give SOME leeway on status, but not much.
SQ KrisFlyer upgrading status of some members due to CoVid19?
Apart from the generous one-year extension of Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Gold, SQ has also granted some members an upgrade of their SQ status due to CoVid-19 related travel stopping altogether.
Marriott Bonvoy extending elite status of members by one year
Good news. Marriott has decided to extend the status benefits for all members by a year. This means if your status was valid till February 2021, it will be extended to February 2022. All this and more inside.
InterMiles suspends mileage expiry till July 2020
Good news. InterMiles has become the latest programme to decide to stall the expiry of miles through July 2020.
Delta Elite Status extended by one year across the board
Delta just made a big move towards all their SkyMiles members and the Sky Medallion programme by offering everyone a one year no questions asked status extension. Not just that member perks are being extended as well for the time being.
Qatar Airways extends Privilege Club status tiers by 12 months
Qatar Airways is extending the status of everyone who is due to have their Qatar Airways status expire by January 2021. Everyone gets 1 more year of status, on the house. No Questions Asked.
