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...deals seem to be more elusive than ever. Recent research into air travel trends by the credit card company American Express suggests that those rock-bottom $7 or $15 tickets, available (to the fortunate few) when budget airlines were battling for market share, might be gone forever. Matthew Davis, Amex's director of consulting services, says the low-cost operators are under increasing pressure from fuel-price hikes and increased landing fees. "We have already seen the fare gap between traditional and low-cost airlines narrowing," he says. Budget operators like easyJet and Go, British Airways' no-frills subsidiary, dispute...
...assistant to president and chief executive of American Express; in Greenwich, Conn. In 1960, when the charge card was two years old and losing money, he engineered the celebrity-packed "Do you know me?" campaign (and later the "Don't leave home without it" slogan), turning the card into AmEx's most valuable product...
...pretty good--free Snapple, a service that delivers cake when it's someone's birthday, doing nothing the entire week except the three hours it takes to write this column. But now I see through their attempts to buy my soul's work through cheap trinkets like a corporate AmEx card and health benefits. Yes, we writers, we conjurers of phrases, we have been used like a...no, I will expend metaphors for the Man no longer. Not since I learned that the Writers Guild of America has issued a list of demands and will go on strike if they...
Minda Shultz, 36, an advanced claim analyst with American Express Financial Advisors, offers a good example of how the philanthropy programs can pay off. Shultz has been able to spend large amounts of time offering aid to hospice patients, in good measure owing to the support of Amex. The company paid for Shultz, a 15-year company veteran, to take a six-month sabbatical in 1999 to volunteer for Hospice of the Lakes in Minneapolis, an organization that provides medical and social-service care for dying individuals. For employees who have been with the firm for at least 10 years...
...result in massive changes in credit cards for consumers," says Anita Boomstein, an attorney with Hughes, Hubbard & Reed. Analysts who follow the case say that with 27,000 types of credit cards available in the U.S. from more than 6,000 banks, the addition of a joint "Your Bank-Amex" credit card would not make a big difference to consumers numbed by interest rates and fees...