Steven Slater is a blogger’s dream. For anyone looking for that quirky story to opine about, Mr. Slater provided a remarkable set of actions that will earn him a bit more than 15 minutes of fame. In fact, I’ll bet the incident that took place this week on Jet Blue flight 1052 from Pittsburgh to [...]

Is that a juice box in the mini bar?
The next frontier in hotel loyalty marketing may reside in a guest who can barely reach the hair dryer and prefers maraschino cherries to Manhattans.
Turns out an increasing number of business travelers are bringing their spouses and kids along, and tacking on a few additional days for [...]

Oracle is increasingly active in the Loyalty Marketing industry and has reported success in providing technology support for some of the largest frequent flyer programs in the US.
I recently ran across an Oracle blog that recounted how Alaska Airlines upped its email game, adding a greater degree of personalization by replacing a legacy mainframe loyalty [...]

I just signed up for the Virgin Atlantic loyalty program called the Flying Club. I have no immediate plans to fly on the airline. Nor do I really need another frequent flyer card, as I’ve got miles banked in three or four programs now.
The reason I joined the club is I just finished reading Business [...]

Air travel has changed from an exciting and privileged experience to something considerably less elegant. Leisure travelers absorb the shock from ever-changing TSA procedures at security checkpoints, and unknowingly contribute to the woes of their fellow travelers when they board loaded down with enough bags to make the Beverly Hillbillies look like minimalists.
For the business [...]

In the midst of checking a slew of emails, it would have been easy to ignore this short message from American Airlines:
“We would like to provide you with an important update to the American Airlines AAdvantage® program. Effective July 1, 2010, the Marriott Rewards program will no longer offer AAdvantage miles for stays at Marriott [...]

Actually, I’m just scratching the surface, but pose a few questions to improve frequent flyer programs and make airline travel a bit more bearable for the masses.
What if the airlines …… ?

… would allow frequent flyers to use miles to pay for a bag check charge or, better yet, waive them for higher tier members? [...]

I am a frequent flyer of Delta Airlines and have a Marriott credit card and enjoy the benefits that I get from using both companies (I like free flights and frequent flyer miles). I just booked a “free” vacation using both vendors and feel pretty good about my loyalty to them, and their loyalty back.
Loyalty [...]

Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an opinion piece for COLLOQUY questioning whether Frequent Flyer miles were still the most valuable currency in the Loyalty Marketing landscape.  The premise was that the weakening value of the FF mile might open the door for a better offer to capture the loyalty imagination of consumers. The next [...]

I am often asked where to go to learn more about Loyalty Marketing. Until Mark Johnson and his crew launched Loyalty 360, it was difficult to provide a useful answer.  There are occasional tracks presented at the annual DMA event and Colloquy continues to deliver its Loyalty Marketing Workshop in conjunction with the DMA, but [...]