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With leisure travel on the increase, car rental agencies — especially in hot travel destinations like Hawaii — are taking advantage and rising rates. Some rentals are going for as high as $600 a day in Hawaii — and if a drop off at another location is involved expect an additional fee of up too $250!!!  Buyers, or in this case, drivers … BEWARE $$$$

Yup — not sure how many thousands of miles are required but Delta has a deal for their top tier frequent flyers to exchange miles for private jet travel —  US airlines are struggling to get their frequent flyer folks to burn up miles on services other than seats on their airlines — and looks like they might get stingy with free seats as revenue business picks up!!!

Looks that way — from the east coast — but NOT to London — the Brits have said ok to fly to Britain BUT to Gatwick and Stanstead Airports … and no start date until the Pandemic settles down some in Europe!!!

AMERICAN loves and covets their frequent flyers — you know all those folks that get to the head of the boarding line first and “gobble” up all those — (well really very few) — class of service upgrades — in 2019 American’s frequent flyer membership exceeded 23 MILLION loyal flyers who accounted for 61% of the airlines total revenue — no wonder they pay soooooooo much attention to them!!!

Take American as an example — in 2019 they made 538 MILLION DOLLARS selling their frequent flyer miles online and with branded consumer promotions — not bad revenue with NO flying expenses!!!

Maybe — Greek government and tourism officials are saying they might be ready to “open” to world travelers as soon as May!!!  Of course, they said about the same thing last year too — but that was pre-vaccine — we’ll see!!!

No kidding — Delta had to cancel over 100 flights over Easter Week because they ran out of pilots, and major carrier computer reservation systems shut down for time on Easter Monday with a system glitch or overload. If America wants to travel … MAYBE transportation systems need more time to catch up???

Maybe — the Convention Bureau tells FOX Business News that several conventions — with 5,000 or more in attendance — are looking to confirm for late summer and fall of this year! This question is — will convention folks actually show???