Word: flyering
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...software will, among other things, help you control your data, keeping nosy marketers from grabbing your profile unless you let them. In fact, Davis thinks companies will eventually pay for the privilege ("Hey, visitor No. 85834: we see you bought Titanic last week. We'll give you 500 frequent-flyer miles to tell us your name, age and income...
Back at school on Monday, we at FM have a few extra frequent flyer miles and enough weekend gossip in our back pockets to give us a fat-assed silhouette...
With the first month's bill from the Harvard Student Telephone Office (HSTO) comes a flyer trumpeting cuts in international rates...
...airlines are adding a new layer of complexity. As part of three major alliances--Northwest with Continental (still pending), Delta with United and American with US Airways--members will be able to earn miles on either carrier and, to a certain extent, pool them. But while that might grant flyers more options, it could also limit competition and further increase already sky-high demand for free seats. Frequent-flyer programs are shrouded in secrecy, but according to Randy Petersen, editor of the trade magazine InsideFlyer, most airlines make only about 7% of seats on a major route available for saver...
Meanwhile, by selling miles to credit-card and phone companies, the airlines together generate $1.5 billion in extra revenues each year on their frequent-flyer programs, according to Petersen. And since frequent flyers often stick to their preferred carrier, even when cheaper fares are available elsewhere, they allow the airlines to charge higher fares, saving the industry some $4 billion annually. Thanks to tight restrictions on frequent-flyer awards, most seats given away by airlines are those that would otherwise go unfilled, costing the airlines next to nothing...