6 Travel Industry Predictions For 2020

Elina Geller, NerdWallet.com
Wed, 12/11/2019 - 9:51am

With only a few weeks left in this decade, I’ve been reflecting on travel trends from 2019. A few developments and changes in particular took me by surprise: United introduced several changes to its MileagePlus frequent flyer program. In April, the airline announced that as of Nov. 15 it would phase out its award chart in... Elina Geller is a writer at NerdWallet.

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