Inside The Mind Of Southwest Airlines COO: His Office Flaunts Alaska Airlines' Failed Plan [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• The COO of Southwest Airlines has a failed Alaska Airlines plan on his office wall
  

  Southwest’s COO said that he has memorialized, on his wall next to his desk, Alaska Airlines predicting they would take over California with the Virgin America merger. Of all the airlines Southwest has feuds with I would not expect Alaska to hold that coveted spot, since it is also an admission that Alaska ran Southwest mostly out of the Pacific Northwest. Perhaps it is inspiration for future expansion back into Alaska territory? Of course now it gets a lot more complicated with the Hawaiian merger.

• Alaska Airlines launched a Lyft partnership a year ago. I’m increasingly high on Mileage Plan and that’s where I’d been crediting my Lyft rides until Bilt Rewards came along and started awarding two points per dollar with Lyft.

  Through January 14, the Alaska partnership earns 2 Mileage Plan miles per dollar spent with Lyft. I still prefer 2 Bilt Rewards points, but Alaska is a close second. Either way be sure you’re triple or quadruple dipping on your Lyft rides.

• Starting in 2028 Mastercard won’t permit issuers to produce cards from first use PVC plastic
• Inflation in Argentina, what paying in cash looks like.
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  Here’s how it looks to pay for a group dinner (and not a particularly expensive one, at that!)

  Paying the bill is a whole event! First the guest counts out the bills into piles of 10,000 pesos, then the waiter recounts to make sure it’s right pic.twitter.com/9g2RFWNj5M

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  — Devon ☀️ (@devonzuegel) December 28, 2023

• Lil Duval should just get to the airport and fly it. Sad that seven figure SkyMiles balance though.
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• Minute Suites is raising prices, but this does not affect Priority Pass (how most of y’all access them).
  

  [W]e are increasing our rates, effective January 1st, 2024. We will be raising all “standard” hourly rates by $7. Therefore, stays 2 hours and less will increase to $55/hr. (currently $48) and the price per hour for all hours after 2 hours will be $45/hr (currently $38).

  …This change will NOT affect Priority Pass rates, Crew, Military, 1st Responder, Overnight, or shower rates.

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