Airlines

According to a recent SEC filing, American Airlines AAdvantage generated $1B cash in Q2 2022, representing a 73% gross margin for the loyalty business. American...

Each year I review past loyalty predictions and make new predictions for the upcoming 12 months. The report card for my 2021 predictions is 4...

Over the past two years -  airlines, hotels and travel companies extended complimentary status for elites because, Covid. These elite status extensions were mainly justified...

The magic of loyalty is something we've all experienced in our lifetimes, and yet, few of us can articulate that powerful feeling while linking...

Some of the brightest people in the travel sector have hung up their boots and are beginning new careers in other industries - and...

Something is absent from airline marketing messages in 2020. Something that airlines have spent the better part of the last century branding customers with. That something...

The airline industry is on its knees and at the mercy of Governments, Shareholders and cashed-up billionaire investors who've always wanted to be millionaires. With...

Can airlines and hotel loyalty programs have too many elite members? What happens to the core business when programs are top-heavy on elites? Does the core...

In 2020 -  United Airlines announced a US $5B loan secured by MileagePlus, proving once again that the Loyalty Program is more valuable than...

Data monetization -- the new loyalty buzzword?! Earlier this week I spoke with top industry experts on loyalty data monetization,  Christian Hylander from Mastercard and...

According to research by Loyalty Data Co, up to 60% of all Status Match submissions are fraudulent. With no way to know how many times...

"MASSIVELY INSIGHTFUL - Something all airlines can learn from".  That is how Aviation Festival Americas organisers described the recent "What's the Status of Status"...

Industry veterans, Dave Canty and Phil Gunter join the Loyalty Summit WebCast to discuss reinventing loyalty programs. In the Loyalty Leaders Insights discussion series, we...

What is the new normal for the aviation industry? Are we destined for an eternity of wearing masks, social distancing, quarantine periods, Government restrictions? Is the...

The Loyalty Summit continues to host regular weekly Loyalty Webinars with special industry expert guest speakers. In the Loyalty Leaders Insights discussion, we went all-out...

Some of the hot topics in the loyalty industry right now are Managing Liability, Member Redemptions & Member Engagement. How important is it for Loyalty...

The Aviation Festival Asia is hosting a series of leadership interviews with experts in their respective fields to discuss key airline challenges, insights and...

Extend elite status or Not to extend elite status? That's the million-dollar question circling around the travel loyalty industry lately. The unprecedented grounding of aircraft,...

"Show me the money!" That's what Jerry Maguire says to keep his Client in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film starring Tom Cruise in which Jerry, a...

Take a moment to consider the following: Who are the most valuable passengers to the airline? How do the airlines track and measure total...

Airline feedback is broken. Everyone knows it, but nobody will admit it. Customer feedback surveys with static questions that demonstrate the airline has no idea...

Pitching your product to an airline loyalty program? Here are 5 tips from someone who has run a global airline loyalty program into the most...

Successful data-driven airlines typically attribute value of the airline loyalty data they collect within the loyalty program based on the commercial application of that...

Looking back over the past 10-years, could we have predicted the airline loyalty industry would be where it's at today? Could we have predicted that...

Did Velocity really double in value over 5 years and is it worth AUD $2bn? Virgin Australia announced its intention to buy back its 35%...