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...travelers, the industry's most valuable passengers and the source of up to 50% of its profits. "We were starved for an airline like this," says Christopher Hayes, the chief investment officer at Rulison & Co., a financial firm based in Rochester, N.Y. Hayes, who has lately forgone his frequent-flyer perks on JetBlue rival US Airways, has already flown the newcomer 12 times: "It's hard to compare flying JetBlue to other airlines...
...considering that Optimistic Alan wasn't quite heard last week - or, just as likely, wasn't quite believed, given the dearth of supporting evidence - take a flyer on him ramping up the sunshine just a little to reduce expectations on the August meet, if only in the Q&A afterward. He knows he can't ease forever, and he's got to start getting people ready for the inevitable day when he's got to let the recovery happen, or not happen...
...medicine. Industry experts currently insist microbes are caught in complex filtering systems and passengers face no greater risk of contracting an illness from a neighbor than they would in any crowded space. "The air goes through a lot of machinery before it gets back to you," says Perry. Any flyer who has listened with dread to a snuffle a few rows back, and then comes down with an illness a few days later, might disagree. But studies suggest proximity, not air quality, is the issue when it comes to contracting colds and other maladies...
...time just seemed like a good thing. Then I got a call from the AmEx fraud department asking me about some charges on my Optima card. I had never used my Optima card. It's just one of many credit cards I ordered because I got frequent-flyer miles for signing up. I would agree to just about anything for miles...
...first learned how to take full advantage of airline, charge-card, hotel and rental-car points through my business-travel experience. Like many other travelers, I was a member of half a dozen different airline-loyalty programs, including Delta Air Lines, whose frequent-flyer plan I joined in 1988. Then, in 1995, owing more to convenient flight schedules than to a determined strategy, I flew enough miles to qualify for Delta's Silver Medallion status (the lowest of three tiers of Medallion status, each with its own perks). I always thought those elite programs were for moguls, not mere mortals...