Weekly Roundup : March 13, 2016

Hello from Srinagar, folks, where we are playing hide and seek with the sun in a generally Zero degree Centigrade. Also the reason we have not yet broke you the bad news about the devaluation of the SBI-AI co-branded credit card. I don’t want to get my head out of the cold just yet to melt it away on this. Here is a roundup of all that happened in the week gone by.

Dal Lake, Srinagar from the Vivanta by Taj, Dal Lake

Aviation News

There has been movement on Jet Airways’ cutting out another of their international flight, and since it was Women’s Day last week, Air India pumped a lot of effort into operating a lot of all-women crew flights to mark the occasion. Other airlines did the same, but did not talk about it as much.

Loyalty Program News

JetPrivilege is going to turn their award chart for partner bookings into a new one, more expensive, from April 1, 2016 onward. So, if you want to know how you can book some trips per the old award chart, read the post below. And Air India’s upgrades have also moved north in terms of number of miles required.

Credit Cards

IndusInd Bank was the most lucrative mileage earning partner for Jet Airways on weekends. And now, its coming down towards the median. Here is the scoop:

IndusInd Jet Airways co-branded card to cut mileage earned

Fare Sales

Jet Airways has dropped prices drastically on business class flights across India, and Vistara and Air India matched up the discount toe to toe. Here is how you can get yourself some luxury travel in the cheap over the coming month:

Jet Airways business class at 40% discount! Air India & Vistara matching

Giveaways

As a part of our ongoing tie-up with RocketMiles, we gave away 15K JPMiles to one person who booked up. You can still get a special bonus of 4K Miles on your first booking, which is higher than the general bonus.