Apr 24, 2014 | 2014 Freddie Awards
Our MC for the evening is Gary Leff of View from the Wing.
Gary’s day job is Chief Financial Officer for a university research center. He’s also a director of a nonprofit that provides networking and professional development opportunities for young people in policy, politics and journalism.
In addition to blogging about his miles and points obsession, he co-founded milepoint.com, where frequent flyers meet to share their knowledge about frequent flyer programs.
Gary serves as Chair of the Nominations Committee for the Freddie Awards and was named one of the world’s top 135 travel specialists by Condé Nast for his award booking service, BookYourAward.com.
Tonight, he will take the reign as Master of Ceremonies, entertaining the crowd, winning a few new friends and undoubtedly breaking a few hearts (not everyone can go home with a Freddie Award).
Apr 24, 2014 | 2014 Freddie Awards, Best Promotion
Avianca is known for awarding double miles with miles purchases. Last year, the offer was a close third in this category and this year, voters chose this offer as their favorite. During April, August and December, for every 1,000 miles that members purchased, LifeMiles awarded an additional 100 percent bonus miles.
Yells come from the crowd as Avianca wins!
Apr 24, 2014 | 2014 Freddie Awards, Best Customer Service
This is the fourth time SAS EuroBonus has won a Freddie Award for Best Customer Service through the years. EuroBonus holds on to the Freddie by a very thin margin above AIR FRANCE – KLM Flying Blue. EuroBonus reaches out to its members on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube and is readily available on the phone and via email. Members are satisfied with how EuroBonus responds to their needs and give the program high marks for customer service.
Martin Wassborn, Director CRM and Nils Lindhe, Vice President – Loyalty, are attending the Freddie Awards tonight.They accept the award with a smile and quick exit.
Apr 24, 2014 | 2014 Freddie Awards
Travel industry executives and an assortment of travel gurus/bloggers and others have all flown in to attend the Freddie Awards. The big event starts around 6pm tonight but the Freddies are much more than an awards ceremony. The Loyalty@Freddie Awards Conference is offering the opportunity for loyalty travel professionals to hone their trade while Randy Petersen’s Travel Executive Summit adds another dimension to the event by hosting roundtable discussions, with not only the panelist asking each other questions, but the audience is also encouraged to ask questions.
Apr 24, 2014 | 2014 Freddie Awards
Voting for this year’s Freddie Awards was conducted from Feb. 15 to March 31 in three separate geographical ballots:
– Americas
– Europe / Africa
– Middle East / Asia / Oceania
There were over 19 million page views.
The top 10 cities travelers voted from included:
New York City, Bogota, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, Houston, Sydney, London, Melbourne and Istanbul
The top 5 countries that travelers voted from included:
United States, France, Australia, Canada and Colombia
There were 235 countries/territories represented.
