Southwest Airlines Offering Priority Pass To Select Cardholders

View From The Wing: "Southwest Airlines is testing sending Priority Pass cards to some of their credit card customers late this month."

"Lucky cardmembers who receive Priority Pass from Southwest will be able to use participating lounges, and since the cards come through Chase’s contract with Priority Pass they’ll presuming include non-lounge experiences like restaurant credits and some airport spas as well."

Hyatt And Lindblad Expeditions Ending Partnership

Loyalty Lobby: "The partnership is winding down, and you have until December 31, 2023, to book Lindblad Expeditions using Hyatt points or make cash bookings that earn points."

Two Transfers Bonuses To Qatar Airways Privilege Club

One Mile At A Time: "Qatar Airways Privilege Club is currently offering two separate transfer bonus promotions. They’re not particularly exciting, but are worth being aware of, as this can also be useful for collecting other “flavors” of Avios (including with British Airways Executive Club)."

- 10% transfer bonus from Amex Membership Rewards
- 25% transfer bonus from Citi ThankYou Points

Please note that these transfer bonuses are handled on Qatar Airways' end so you won't see any indication of the bonus on Amex or Citi sites. The bonus can take up to 45 days to post. Hopefully, it won't actually take that long.

Points Wire Note: You can combine Avios between Qatar Airways, British Airways, Iberia, and Aer Lingus.

Flying Blue Miles Can Now Book Award Tickets On ITA Airways

One Mile At A Time: "ITA Airways is the new(ish) national airline of Italy, and the successor of Alitalia. While the airline belongs to the SkyTeam alliance for now (until Lufthansa completes its takeover), unfortunately there have been limited opportunities to actually redeem partner miles for travel on ITA, which has been quite frustrating."

"Air France-KLM Flying Blue points can now be used to redeem on ITA Airways directly through the Air France or KLM website."

Points Wire Note: Whether using Flying Blue miles or Virgin points will be a better option depends on the route and whether if there is a bank transfer bonus to either program.

JetBlue TrueBlue Changes Award Chart For Hawaiian Airlines

Award Wallet: "JetBlue just added the ability to book Hawaiian award flights online, making the booking process much more convenient. This new functionality comes just a week after JetBlue added online booking for Qatar awards — marking the first time TrueBlue members could redeem points for partner awards online."

"However, it's not all good news. Along with making Hawaiian Airlines awards bookable online, it seems JetBlue has revamped its unpublished award chart for Hawaiian flights, making some awards a lot more expensive to book."

Etihad Restricting Partner Access To Business And First Class

One Mile At A Time: "Long story short, at the moment there seem to be no opportunities to redeem partner points currencies for travel in Etihad first class or business class on long haul flights. There’s long haul economy award space and there’s a limited amount of short haul business class award space, but there’s no medium or long haul first or business class award space."

"What’s interesting here is that this wasn’t an overnight change. For several months now, Air Canada Aeroplan has been having issues with booking premium Etihad award space. Then a few weeks ago, American AAdvantage seemed to lose access to most premium Etihad award space."

Iberia 50% Off Award Tickets For Select Members

Pontos pra Voar reports that Iberia Plus has launched a 50% off award ticket promo. Unfortunately, this is a targeted offer so only some accounts can book with the discount.

There isn't a promo page so you'll only know you have the offer if you search for award space and see the award rate is cut in half.

It's worth a quick check to see if you have the 50% discount if you want to book flights to Europe.

The one-way business class award rate of 34,000/50,000 Avios (off-peak/peak) one-way from the east coast and Chicago drops to 17,000/25,000 Avios. Economy class awards drop from 17,000/20,000 Avios (off-peak/peak) to 8,500/10,000 Avios.

American Airlines Won't Help Fix Your Award Ticket On Etihad

View From The Wing: "Although American’s website remains glitchy for showing Etihad award space, the AAdvantage program retains access to seats that are made available by the Etihad – even while Etihad’s partner Air Canada Aeroplan frequently does not."

"However if things go wrong with your Etihad award redemption, American is telling its own agents that they just aren’t going to be able to help."

Redeem Emirates Skywards For Condor Flights

Award Wallet: "Not many people are familiar with Condor, a German airline focused on leisure routes. Condor isn't a part of an airline alliance and, until recently, you could only book Condor using miles through the airline's partnership with Alaska Airlines."

"However, Condor and Emirates just struck a new partnership agreement that allows Emirates Skywards members to earn and redeem miles on Condor-operated flights."

Promo: Pay For Top-Tier Frontier Status Match

One Mile At A Time: "Frontier Airlines and StatusMatch.com have teamed up to offer an intriguing paid status match promotion, for anyone who has elite status with an airline program, hotel program, or cruise line program. While there’s a fee to enroll, you can easily recoup that after just one trip, given the savings on fees that Frontier Airlines’ elite member receive."

Points Wire Note: I've been hearing from more and more people giving Frontier a try, especially once they've done a status match. I'll be curious to see if the low cost carrier can bring over some disenchanted elites from the Big 3 (American, Delta, United).