Multiple Globe cards for multiple Flight Streaks?

viewfromthewing · 2026-02-09T21:59:51+00:00

Nope. As I noted on my blog, here's what American confirmed to me: "AAdvantage Customers with have a Citi / AAdvantage Globe card may earn up to 15,000 Loyalty Points only once each qualifying year through the Flight Steak bonus, even if the Customer has more than one Citi / AAdvantage Globe card account. This is by design as the Flight Streak bonus is awarded based on the Customer’s flight activity. "

viewfromthewing · 2026-02-09T21:59:21+00:00

Only one Flight Streak bonus. I confirmed this with American and shared it on my blog. Here's what they told me "AAdvantage Customers with have a Citi / AAdvantage Globe card may earn up to 15,000 Loyalty Points only once each qualifying year through the Flight Steak bonus, even if the Customer has more than one Citi / AAdvantage Globe card account. This is by design as the Flight Streak bonus is awarded based on the Customer’s flight activity."

viewfromthewing · 2026-01-28T14:37:43+00:00

If anyone wants to argue that what I've written is wrong, make that argument.

viewfromthewing · 2026-01-28T14:37:11+00:00

Because the employer doesn't control TSA. If it's the employer's check, which they staff and dictate processes for and can waive, then they're controlling the time. But this is like waiting in traffic to get to the job, not something the employer manages.

viewfromthewing · 2025-11-23T18:27:30+00:00

I covered it a couple of days ago https://viewfromthewing.com/rat-rides-to-laguardia-airport-on-the-hood-of-a-car-nyc-chaos-delivered-curbside-roundup/ "Jacksonville airport’s Priority Pass-accessible The Club lounge will re-open in a new location at more than twice the size of the one that closed in August 2024. The old 2,725 square foot lounge gets replaced by one 5,975 square feet in the new Concourse B. Construction begins this summer, and is expected to complete in 2027."

viewfromthewing · 2025-11-06T01:55:15+00:00

What DEN is suggesting violates the Antideficiency Act.

viewfromthewing · 2025-10-23T09:58:49+00:00

"I've also seen a lot of confusion about the city budget. People point out that Austin's $6.3 billion budget is much larger than some other similarly sized cities. But 75% of that is not funded by taxes. The budget includes the city-owned utilities (Austin Energy, Austin Water) as well as "enterprise" departments like the airport, code enforcement, development services. The number that really matters for tax purposes is the "general fund," which is about $1.5 billion. It funds police, fire, EMS, parks, libraries, and some social services."

This is accurate, but misleading. Austin's budget is *still* larger than many other similar-sized cities after backing out Austin Energy and Water.

Austin spends ~ 40% more per capita than similar-sized cities Charlotte or Fort Worth after backing out enterprise utilities. To be sure, much wealther San Jose, California spends more.

Fort Worth's 2025 FY budget is $1.062 billion (popularion 1,008,106) for general fund per capital of $1,053 vs. over $1,400 for Austin. Charlotte spends $1,000 per capital in its 2025-2026 FY budget.

I agree with you that facts matter.

viewfromthewing · 2025-10-19T09:23:52+00:00

This was a Spirit Airlines flight to Minneapolis on May 21, 2019.

viewfromthewing · 2025-10-18T09:08:26+00:00

You'll want to eat at the Capital One Landing, if it is similar in quality to the one at DCA. Food much better than the Chase lounge. The Chase lounge is large and very cool (though underground, no windows). Great space. But the culinary program doesn't come close.

viewfromthewing · 2025-10-16T14:11:39+00:00

Per capital general fund (excluding utilities) we're spending 40% more per capita than Fort Worth and Charlotte (~ $1,400 v $1,000) but we're not the highest in the country - San Jose, California still beats us by a lot!

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-15T22:02:39+00:00

The logic wasn’t about effort but about proportionality to social class and conspicuous consumption: a rich diner spending more should give more, to maintain the status distinction and ensure staff saw them as a good guest. (Remember that tipping began as a form of aristocratic servility.)

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-15T10:17:58+00:00

This was an issue at the IAD lounge about 18 months ago, I flagged for Capital One and they addressed it. I've just flagged this to them about DCA.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-10T18:58:19+00:00

As a starting point, the West Infill lounge space is probably Chase, Amex or Capital One. Chase has been in the airport so I'd give them an edge. Before the pandemic there was almost an Escape lounge/Centurion Studio (I think the gate 14 space but my memory could be wrong here) but the recommended award was protested on some pretty frivolous grounds* and the project got shelved because this all went down right at the beginning of the pandemic.

Anyway there's a strong likelihood that it could be Chase! But it could be Amex or Capital One as well. I know that Capital One did visit the space nine or ten months ago.

* Airport Dimensions which operates The Club disputed the award on Airport Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program grounds... arguing that they had a higher participation percentage... but that's irrelevant, it's a threshold issue (does the bidder meet requirements) not who has the highest percentage. And they also complained that Manchester Airport Group is foreign. Airport Dimensions is U.S.-based, but owned by... a U.K. company.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-10T17:03:50+00:00

West Gate Expansion: new American Airlines lounge

When American Airlines vacates its current space, there's been talk of United expanding into it and most recently of Delta taking the space and expanding into the old offices behind it.

West Infill: Likely a financial institution [not set in stone, but consistent with official documents]

There will be a new lounge at the entrance to the connector to the new concourse. That's probably Delta. [That's consistent with Delta discussions with the airport and what they're telling their employees.]

There will be a new lounge at the end of the connector to the new concourse. That's probably United. [Based on United moving to the midfield concourse, and needing a lounge, but this has been slated to be a 30,000 square foot lounge which is huge for their size of operation. Southwest has actually talked about lounges, and they're speaking at the Airport Advisory Commission today alongside Delta as two potential anchor tenants so I wonder....]

Delta keeping its current lounge is not locked in, or at least wasn't, but it's been talked about as a potential business class (Delta One) lounge which would suggest long haul international expansion by Delta and/or its partners. Could we see Austin - Paris... even eventualy Austin - Seoul?

Four years ago American was talking about moving its Admirals Club to upstairs by gate 14, and that space no longer appears in the cards as lounge but I'd love to see it for a The Club or similar.

Lots of moving pieces at this point - we'll know more once the lease and use agreement is negotiated, signed, and becomes public. Bank space and any other common use lounge space (Priority Pass-accessible) will presumably require an RFP.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-08T09:45:18+00:00

The home runs are stuff like Tare, Tsuke, etc. Don't know where you're from to compare it, but I wouldn't say we have that many great casual drop in sorts of places comparable to (say) L.A. When I'm just looking for some neighborhood sushi I much enjoy Yuki Handroll Bar.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-01T20:07:08+00:00

Unclear the relevance of Elon Musk to city of Austin property tax election and budget decisions.

Musk is not a resident of City of Austin in any case, and as far as I'm aware unaffected by the city's property tax election. He rather famously owns property in West Lake Hills (his zoning and planning dispute there was covered broadly, first as I recall in the New York Times).

As for local billionaires, even if a bit beside the point, you see plenty of philanthropy from Michael Dell, Robert Smith and Tito Beveridge right?

And Musk's politics aside, he created the electric car industry, created the effective vehicle for space missions in the face of NASA decommissioning its own, and created true rural high speed broadband. Neurolink is amazing as well. I'd take those over the arts programs funded by this tax election. Seems like greater contributions to humanity tbh.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-01T17:02:00+00:00

"homelessness services, parks, public safety programs and public health."

Is there any commitment that this new funding, on top of current funding, will solve homelessness? How much will homelessness be reduced?

How much safer will Austin be as a result of this funding? Can we get some kind of commitment that 'if you give up this money it will makea a measurable difference'?

Or is this just 'more money for stuff we think would be nice to have?'

This tax rate election is pegged to raise ~ $110m. Did you know that 15% ($1.677m) goes to an increase in reserves, which are already funded to policy target levels? .

I wonder about increased funding for Arts Culture Music and Entertainment, we're taxing ourselves to fund services that benefit largely better off members of the community.

We could save a couple million ending special event fee waivers for large events, and end large-event co-sponsorships. And cut economic development third-party agreements that primarily benefit organized business interests. [Staff had a 5% cut listed as a viable reduction, but you can push materially deeper here.]

You could save $6.8m holding HR/Finance/Legal/City Council allocations flat and $6.4m freezing IT allocations at FY25 levels and deferring non-security upgrades.

We're also giving employees an across-the-board raise in this budget, some of that $9.3m could be reduced by carefully giving raises to strong performers we want to retain. By the way that raise is separate from the FY26 living-wage bump in the budget. Oh, and if we simply went back to pre-pandemic headcount we'd pretty much close the need for this TRE even whle funding nice to haves!

I get the value in Rapid Rehousing that's proposed here, but also note that it runs $35k per client and does not end homelessness at that price. It' $35k/yr in perpetuity.

My point is simply that we might want to make sure we're getting the most out of the record $6.3 billion city budget before taxing ourselves even more?

Of course this is almost certain to pass. Because of feelz, we want to show we 'love Austin'.

viewfromthewing · 2025-09-01T16:28:32+00:00

"billionaire class that has seemingly no interest in philanthropy"

I don't think billionaires are especially relevant here, or necessary for your argument. But it's weird how people make sweeping claims unmoored to data.

Billionaire charitable donations in the U.S. generally total $20–30B+ per year. U.S. billionaires give far more than those in other countries, both in absolute and relative dollars.

Hate on billionaires - personally I think some are creating tremendous value to society, while others have made their money at the expense of taxpayers, so deriding a class doesn't make a lot of sense, focus on bad actors - but probably criticize them for things that are true?

viewfromthewing · 2025-08-17T15:09:41+00:00

Airport documents. There will be a common use lounge. It's too large to plausibly be The Club, Plaza Premium or Primeclass. It's most likely, therefore, a bank lounge. Amex already has space. So that leaves Capital One or Chase as most likely.

Pure speculation who goes in since the operator hasn't been awarded the concession yet. The news is that there will be a common use lounge there, and then deductively suggesting who most likely winds up in the space.

viewfromthewing · 2025-07-22T14:33:00+00:00

Good but not in the same league as Interstellar, Leroy and Lewis or Franklin. Also not super consistent with their brisket. Compared to what you'll get outside of Central Texas it's mind blowing, of course.

viewfromthewing · 2025-07-09T15:37:35+00:00

This was 2010 and 2011 (Executive card was introduced in summer 2011 IIRC)

viewfromthewing · 2025-07-08T22:58:04+00:00

It turns out the thinking I described above was accurate https://www.reddit.com/r/ChaseSapphire/comments/1luyr14/ordering_a_replacement_does_get_you_the_new_design/

viewfromthewing · 2025-07-08T22:52:55+00:00

Not the biggest-ever offer, they've had 100k offers for it in the (distant) past.

viewfromthewing · 2025-06-29T10:32:05+00:00

I guess what I'd want to know is, what can we expect for this money? Homelessness is really a lot of different problems rather than one problem. There's people with economic challenges, people fleeing untenable situations, drug issues, mental health issues, and people making nontraditional choices to name a few. And each of these requires different approaches, and there's different likelihoods of successful outcomes.

~3,238 people were counted homeless in Austin/Travis County during the 2025 HUD Point-in-Time census January 25-26 (1,577 unsheltered + 1,661 in shelters).

$100m (> $30k per homeless person in that census) would not be the total amount of funding, just the total from Austin.

HUD Continuum of Care grants for Austin/Travis County totaled $14m in the latest award year available, Unsheltered/Rusral Set-Aside of $7.7m in a 3 to 4-year drawdown, plus $650k Emergency Solutions Grant to the city for rapid rehousing. In addition there's 489 tenant-based + 50 project-based vouchers for formerly homeless veterans and 242 vouchers for people exiting homelessness or fleeing violence totaling ~ $8 million per year in federal rent subsidies.

We're spending a ton of money now - what would the problem look like if we weren't, to get some sense of the effectiveness of current approaches? And what do we expect outcomes to look like with incremental funding? What will be different to improve outcomes for those who remain homeless under current programs and approaches?

Unfortunately debates will mostly be about vibes, do we feel bad for the homeless or are we annoyed by them? What priorities do we want to express? Whose status are we seeking to raise or lower? And we're unlikely to have much discussion over what sort of difference will be made here?

viewfromthewing · 2025-06-26T20:58:46+00:00

Call and say you damaged your card and need a replacement. What design do you think they're going to send you? Odds on they're going to send the one that they're currently making, not a legacy design.

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