Tim Winship Quotes (8 Quotes)

It's as close to the Swiss Army Knife of rewards cards as it gets. It all comes down to simple math.

I wouldn't worry about actually getting where I'm going, but I would count on there being a fairly high probability of my getting there later than anticipated.

I welcome the idea of an airline giving serious attention to the nutritional specifications of these snacks.

Having a credit card associated with a frequent-flier program is a real money maker. Typically, airlines charge the credit-card company one or two cents for each mile issued. That can equate to millions of dollars.

The value of a frequent-flyer ticket at the end of the day depends on the value of a revenue ticket that you might have bought had you not used your miles,

The big issue is award availability. Whenever you have a capacity reduction, that inevitably translates directly into fewer award seats, and I have no doubt that will happen in this case.

This whole miles-for-merchandise mini-movement is being forced onto the airlines by their own inability to make good on the promise of free award seats.

There is something deep in the human psyche that keeps people, myself included, in sort of a hoarding mode. You have to overcome that.