Episode Details
Back to EpisodesPhone Calls on Planes, Hotel Points = DEBT and a Wild United-American Merger Idea
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Description
This week on MTM Travel, Shawn and Mark get into one of the most annoying travel debates imaginable: phone calls on airplanes. They also dig into American Airlines' bus route oddities, what hotel loyalty liabilities really mean, and whether a United-American merger would solve anything or just make the mess bigger.
In This Episode:
- Why phone calls on planes feel like a terrible idea
- The strange case of American Airlines bus routes
- A quick detour into the Spruce $100 offer and Condor trip planning
- Why hotel loyalty programs are carrying giant IOUs
- Whether a United-American merger is smart or a complete circus
Episode Guide:
- 0:00 Welcome to MTM Travel
- 0:17 Phone calls on airplanes and why this could get ugly
- 4:14 American Airlines' bus route confusion
- 6:30 Spruce $100 offer ending April 15
- 7:29 Shawn's Condor booking and Europe trip planning
- 12:15 Hotel loyalty programs and their giant IOUs
- 15:29 Why hotel loyalty is now the real hotel business
- 17:18 The United-American merger idea
- 20:24 Why JetBlue or Alaska makes more sense
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- Hotel IOU - https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/7-billion-loyalty-iou-marriott-130000589.html
- United-American - https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-ceo-scott-kirby-merger-american/
- BA calls - https://onemileatatime.com/news/british-airways-video-voice-calls-starlink-wi-fi/
- AA bus - https://www.fox13news.com/news/american-airlines-customers-say-flights-turned-bus-trips-without-warning
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