Hyatt's partnership with AA: Deepened or Devalued? | Coffee Break Ep29 | 10-15-24
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Recently news broke that Hyatt and American Airlines plan to change their partnership with each other. Was the partnership "deepened" like we suggested when we wrote this post, or was it "devalued" like our readers thought in the comments? (Or is it somehow both?)
(00:41) - Read our post "Hyatt & American Airlines deepen partnership, add more reciprocal earning opportunities" here.
(02:49) - What is the current Hyatt / AA relationship like? (Until 12/31/24)
(03:39) - New AA benefits for Hyatt elites...
(08:33) - Comparing Old vs New
(13:27) - Stephen's thoughts
(14:21) - Nick's thoughts
(16:57) - Greg't thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:16.4 | This is not your typical frequent mile on the air episode. This is a standalone segment we're calling coffee break. |
| 0:24.9 | Each coffee break segment will cover a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:30.3 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or your money back. |
| 0:34.5 | Enjoy. |
| 0:43.6 | Today's coffee break, Hyatt's partnership with American Airlines deepened or devalued. |
| 0:51.8 | Recently, news broke that Hyatt and American Airlines plan to change up their partnership with each other. And we posted with a title saying, |
| 0:56.7 | Hyatt and American Airlines deepen partnership add more reciprocal earning opportunities. That was |
| 1:02.7 | the title of our post on the blog. But our readers had a different take on it. Didn't think |
| 1:08.9 | it was so much deepened as devalued. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm going to talk through a few of the reader comments. |
| 1:14.9 | So first, Gene says, deepen? |
| 1:18.2 | You mean weaken? |
| 1:20.2 | This arrangement has been nuked. |
| 1:22.3 | A.A. status is useless. |
| 1:23.8 | And all these seat awards and low-level Hyatt statuses are a joke. Thank goodness |
| 1:29.2 | Hyatt Globalist isn't useless yet, but that wasn't all. Sooch chimed in. This is the only |
| 1:37.2 | blog describing this change as deepening. The changes to the partnership are strictly worse than |
| 1:42.5 | what exists now and the fact that you support it reveals you to be a paid advertiser for corporations. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We don't do that. There are no posts on Frequent Myler that are like sponsored posts. You don't see any of that. So we do get information occasionally from some programs that choose to share it with us ahead of time, usually not very far ahead of time, like we're talking hours or a day or something, |
| 2:04.3 | maybe at best. |
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