Yesterday, shareholders of Marriott International and Starwood Hotels and Resorts voted to approve the merger between the two companies that will create the largest hotel chain in the world. Recall Marriott recently won the bidding war to acquire Starwood and this approval was the next step in the merger process. Onward they go… […]
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4/7/2016 Email From Virgin America About The Merger
Below you will see Virgin America’s latest email to me providing some information about the merger, but kind of nothing we didn’t already know. “Dear cindy, I wanted to follow-up on the news announced earlier this week that Virgin America has agreed to be acquired by Alaska Airlines. We’ve received an outpouring of support […]
Virgin America’s Email To It’s Elevate Members About The Acquisition
This is the email that Virgin America sent to it Elevate members today about it’s acquisition by Alaska Airlines.. “I wanted to write to let you know that we announced today that Virgin America has agreed to be acquired by Alaska Airlines. With complementary West Coast-based networks and similar cultures focused on guest service […]
Alaska Airlines Acquires Virgin America
After much buzz over the last few days, it was announced today that Alaska Airlines is acquiring Virgin America for $2.6 billion. The airlines indicated that after the acquisition, the combined airline will have 1,200 daily departures, 280 aircraft, as well as hubs in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anchorage, Alaska, and Portland, Oregon. As […]
Anbang Is Abandoning It’s $14 Billion Bid
The saga continues and it looks like its over. Anbang is abandoning its $14 billion bid for Starwood “due to various market conditions.” It looks like Marriott will once again come in, and this time at the higher $13.6 billion offer that it had to come up with when Anbang started the bidding war. The […]
Starwood Gets Higher Offer Once Again From China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co.
Once again, China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. offered a superior competing bid to Marriott’s bid. This time Anbang made a 14 billion dollar bid which exceeded Marriott’s latest 13.6 billion dollar bid. Starwood is considering the offer and I look forward to seeinf what Marriott’s next move will be. However, some lodging analysts think that […]
Marriott Wins Bidding War For Starwood
Recall last November, Marriott and Starwood announced a merger. The deal was set to close at the end of this month, but earlier this week there was another offer for Starwood. A group led by China’s Anbang Insurance Group Co. offered a superior competing bid to acquire Starwood. Marriott had a few days to counter […]
Changes To The iPrefer Rewards Program
As of February 12, 2016, iPrefer increased the number of iPrefer points needed to redeem Reward Certificates by 10x. It follows, that they also changed the number of points that you earn on paid stays from 1 point per $1 spent to 10 points per $1 spent. iPrefer adjusted everyone’s existing point balance by […]
2016 SPG Category Changes
Every year Starwood Preferred Guest makes category changes to it’s properties. This year the changes will take effect on March 1, 2016. You can review these changes here. If somewhere you want to book is moving up, you can still book at the current redemption rate before the 2016 […]
AA Drops Lawsuit Against Gogo
American Airlines dropped the lawsuit that it had filed last week against Gogo for slow inflight Wi-Fi. American had sued to get out get out of it’s contract with Gogo. American will be evaluating of Gogo’s competing proposal that will hopefully be equal to what American had found with […]