TouringTony🏅

Travel Blogger ,Consultant, & Columnist 4 #CNN affiliated newspaper @thegayly✈️Traveling the 🌎 on my own dime💰 & writing about how I do it and how you can too

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If you're sitting on 200,000 Hilton points waiting for a dream trip someday — Hilton has already changed the price of that dream twice this year. Spend them now or watch them keep shrinking.

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Hilton raised award prices overnight. Third time in 9 months. Zero warning. No award chart to check.

The part nobody says: Amex already paid Hilton for your points at a fixed rate. The devaluation is them collecting twice.

https://t.co/A5MSPahHh9

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No award chart = no accountability. Hilton designed a system where they can raise prices with zero proof of devaluation. You can't screenshot a promise they never made. That's not dynamic pricing. That's cover.

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The most underused move: book partner award space, not your home airline's.

Alaska miles for JAL business class. United miles for ANA first. AAdvantage miles for Qatar Qsuites.

Which partner sweet spot are you working right now?

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59 airlines. 3 alliances. Pick the wrong one and you leave real money on the table every time you fly.

Star Alliance vs SkyTeam vs oneworld — what actually changed in 2026 and which one pays you back: https://t.co/fgVfZbpUiN

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Full breakdown + whether World of Hyatt is still worth it:
https://t.co/5ySp0uRar3

@garyleff @onemileatatime @Hyatt @worldofhyatt @frequentmiler — curious your take on the CEO calling this "objectifying"

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Hyatt raised top hotel redemptions 67% in points — then their CEO told members to stop "objectifying" loyalty.

Meanwhile, they project to DOUBLE program profits.

Do as I say. Not as I do.

https://t.co/SSIZnkLSEw

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The math 🧵

Category 8: 45,000 → 75,000 pts/night (+67%)
Category 7: up to +50%
Standard awards across the board: up 17-38%

Hyatt projects to DOUBLE loyalty program profits from this exact change.

That's the "emotional relationship" they want you to have.

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American Airlines can bump you from first class to coach and legally keep 60% of your money. They call it policy. A DOT complaint filed this week says it may be illegal. Full breakdown: https://t.co/Yo4O8yLDof

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@SecScottBessent @SenWarren @PeteButtigieg You’re 100% sure of this? And stop being political! Wonder why we are divided and trust in GOV is at all time low is because people like you are being political when in reality your job is to work for ALL AMERICANS.

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@SecDuffy #1 , you SHOULD NOT BE POLITICAL, you are the SecTrans for ALL AMERICANS! #2, Quit deflecting ALL THE BLAME for this.. it of course has NOTHING TO DO WITH the price of Jet Fuel, does it? 👀And Your 100% positive that even with the merger , this wouldn’t have happened?

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@SassaRiverRat @jimiuorio Why you’re focused on “affording “ it , and telling someone to “use another method of travel” is so divisive .. I was just saying use profits to better the airline instead of focusing on wall street. You seem to jump to talking points instead of actually reading what I said.

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@SassaRiverRat @jimiuorio No one said they shouldn’t make money.. I sure didn’t.. JUST SAYING, and AIRLINE should be in the business of being an AIRLINE!.. They can, and HAVE focused on the people they are flying before and MADE MONEY. All I’m saying is an AIRLIN

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@Georgesantos @SpiritAirlines @SenWarren Really? You’re a hot mess !

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@DDFStrand Because us travelers are NO LONGER the US Airlines customers, their customers are shareholders and the stock market and the banks they sell miles too! Customer Service comes from the top and when the top sees travelers as pests, it eventually trickles down!

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@LarryJones YET , Delta and the other complain about the Middle East airlines getting govt help, but US bailouts, bankruptcy , covid grants etc are far more help than the ME3 gets

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@CSUNSHINE Unfortunately , both Improve Americans lives, but the one positions always choose is the FEW AMERICAN lives that profit from such things, not the greater good

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@SecDuffy This is why no one trusts you all because you are supposed to be non political and be the sec trans for ALL AMERICANS! You just told over 100 million Americans that you are NOT their Sec Trans!

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@Avgeek_Jan @Delta They keep cutting and cutting and cutting because they CAN! But the pendulum always swings and because the US Airlines always shoot themselves in the foot, they fall hard, but thanks to GOV subsidies (Bankruptcy) they get second, third…. Chances. Loyalty is supposed to be 2ways