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InterContinental Hotels Group is offering a flash sale where you can buy IHG Rewards Club points just for half a cent each. This could be very interesting if you are going to be up for a stay anytime soon at an IHG hotel.
Emirates Skywards is offering a nice 25% discount on the use of Emirates miles for redeeming tickets and upgrades to celebrate 25 Million Members in the programme. Get in on it.
Reminder. Marriott Bonvoy’s peak pricing sets in tomorrrow onwards. So if you want to make any reservations with your points (or any Points Advance reservations) without facing Peak Pricing today is the day.
Vistara has selected an IFE provider for their new medium and long-haul planes coming up in the coming year. Panasonic Aero will power the seatback IFE on these aircraft.
World of Hyatt is out with their last promotion for the year, which allows you to earn up to three times the usual points on your stays with Hyatt hotels, SLH hotels and M-life affiliated properties around the globe.
Vistara’s new A320 aircraft, scheduled to join the fleet October 2019 onwards, will have in-seat power for everyone on the aircraft.
JetPrivilege is planning to rebrand in the coming weeks. That should be the way forward as the loyalty programme moves on from its long association with Jet Airways and charts out a path of its own.
Air India Express will become the next Indian carrier to move away from single-use plastic, to be followed later by Air India in phase 2.
Pakistan seems to be planning another airspace closure, this time for airlines flying to India. But no decision seems to be taken on this yet.
Marriott International is moving towards replacing single-use amenity bottles in hotel rooms with larger bottles, and expects to complete transition to the new format by the end of 2020.
The IndiGo London flight may be finally a wide body operation when it starts, if it starts. For now, the CEO says that they are in the process of evaluating the options they have, including a widebody aircraft, to fly IndiGo to London.
