Frequent Flier Program News Today

Air India has relaunched its frequent flier programme, called Flying Returns. Faster upgrades to higher tiers and near-perpetual validity of points make the new version of Flying Returns much better than its earlier avatar. Use your frequent-flier points wisely and youll be able to get free air tickets from time to time. Else, the wait can be really long.

Major U.S. carriers including United, American and Delta Air Lines have suspended flying over Russian airspace.

Your identity in the tsa checkpoint is now down to only six second. >> i think the timing could not be more perfect in many ways because more and more regular travelers are coming back to travel. >> reporter: the trial will start at deltas busiest hub, at first for those in deltas frequent flier program who also have tsa precheck. passport and visa photos in a federal database are compared with your live photo. the tsa insists that file is immediately destroyed, upping security from cyberthreats...

Check and even in those countries that are risk for us i think we could find a good known traveler program, a frequent flier program. i think that would help it pass legal muster if we tried to internationalize this global entry so known travelers could still travel. >> shannon: very convenient. saves a lot of time. there is a background vetting process but in so many of these cases what critics worry about with foreign countries is that we rely on them for a good chunk of that vetting. is there...

They didnt obey our rules though. the students came here, overstayed their visas, didnt go to school. visitors came, overstayed their visa. so thing is, sure, wouldnt we want to have scrutiny saying youre coming for a month that you go back home after a month. if we dont know that, then i think we do need to press pause and say lets get a better grip on whats been going on. its been 15 years and we have not fixed our immigration system. >> 33 countries is a lot of countries. and i couldnt help b...

It is based on a risk assessment. we know where terrorism is coming from, who is promoting it, who has a significant population of people that would want to kill us if they get here. we need to be protected from people coming from europe as well. our countries that are friends even there needs to be a process having them come from global entry which is a background check like frequent flier program. we are crazy spending the money to defend the country from terrorism and having an open border. d...

Business person? i think we can spend less time. if its your first time coming to the u.s., you need to be investigating to make sure youre not coming here within the u.s. i think the frequent flier program is a good one. it gets the regular business people out of the line and you can spend more time on the infrequent travelers. >> your foreign policy views are definitely unique among the republican presidential candidates. last year when i interviewed dick cheney. i asked him who he thought wou...

Targeted intelligence and not spending so much of our time with blanket intelligence of everyone. the boston bomber we were tipped off by the russians, we didnt keep track of him because of some kind of screw up with the way the name was spelled. we need to spend more time on actually examining manifest. who is visiting us from saudi arabia? who is visiting from egypt? who is coming from anymore in the middle east and we need to do thorough background checks on these people even if it delays the...

Threats you can spend more time. the frequent flier program is a good program and made it easier. >> youre talking about the prescreen or global entry but thats done by the tsa. how would a private contractor, for example, do that kind of screening? >> you can have any of this. we still have some airports that do have private screening. so i guess its just a question of who does a better job? the reason i tend to distrust government is they are not good at doing a lot. for example, were talking ...

Horrific crash. no news on injuries on fatalities but certainly a lot of questions that need answers so as we get more live pictures and as we get more information, well bring that to you as soon as we learn more. jon: today in the airline industry, delta makes another change to the frequent flier program. this time it seems passengers might come out on the winning end. joining us from the fox business network lauren what are they doing? >> were getting something from an airline? rare good news ...