British Airways greets frequent flyers with their favourite drink and newspaper, based on previous choices.
Their aim is have ER staff become more engaged in the long term care of these frequent flyers.
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Here is a simple premise: many frequent flyers have been in America a lot longer than the terrorists have.
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That meant they were often claimed first by frequent flyers unless you had the foresight to book the row months in advance.
Continental is focusing on Twitter, where it has about 3, 000 followers, and FlyerTalk.com, a Web site devoted to frequent flyers, she said.
Despite hefty annual fees, avid frequent flyers might find that the fringe benefits provided by some airline credit cards outweigh the costs of card membership.
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To make sure its frequent flyers stayed with it for long-haul trips, Alaska struck code-share deals with 15 airlines to tap into their global networks.
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Frequent flyers would have to give up their priority boarding positions.
On the former, he cites airline employees, unions, even frequent flyers.
And indeed many nomads are frequent flyers, for example, which is why airlines such as JetBlue, American Airlines and Continental Airlines are now introducing in-flight Wi-Fi.
Earlier this week, NBAA President Ed Bolen sent UAL 's United Airlines chief Glenn Tilton a scathing letter after Tilden spammed United's frequent flyers on the issue.
Air France, meanwhile, recently began a pilot program with travel-technology group Amadeus for frequent flyers between Nice and Paris's Orly airport that could potentially save passengers crucial time.
And because they view buying plane tickets as a challenge, this mix of frequent flyers, travel agents and amateurs are often well informed about the ins and outs of booking long-haul flights or complicated itineraries.
Joyce said the new partnership would benefit its frequent flyers in particular, with the airlines offering reciprocal access to tier status benefits, including end-to-end recognition of customers, lounge access and priority check-in and boarding.
Earlier this week, NBAA President Ed Bolen sent UAL 's (nasdaq: UAUA - news - people ) United Airlines chief Glenn Tilton a scathing letter after Tilden spammed United's frequent flyers on the issue.
Among the bits of holiday cheer you may have missed in recent weeks was a campaign the major airlines to encourage its frequent flyers to donate some of their miles to one of dozens of charitable organizations across the country.
As frequent flyers know, the payoff for dealing with airport security (even then) and regularly delayed flights was and is the possibility of an upgrade to first class with seats that are actually meant to house a human body of normal size.
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To make matters better, Redbox lets you return to any of their kiosks anywhere. (Some frequent flyers actually use it to rent something for a flight.) The techie crowd reading this is saying: Yeah, yeah, so, the disc business is still dying.
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Business ramifications aside, the big losers in this merger are frequent Continental flyers like myself.
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