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The average night for a, well, to stay in a three-diamond hotel, $148 a night. good news, chris, rental car prices remain steady from last year. about $38 a day. on average, of course. >> jeff, always good to see you. thank you. nearly 3 million people are expected to fly this memorial day weekend. now a new survey finds its a little easier to redeem your freaked flyer miles this year. the best airlines. southwest granted just about every request for tickets followed by jetblue, united and continental. as for the worst, delta and usair, which didn't have seats available for about three out o...

Bait and switch, fly more, but now they are making it impossible for us to do so. who are the best and worst and what are they doing to keep us from using our miles? >> multiple questions in there. there was a survey done by a company, what they did is went out and tried to book over 6,000 times using frequent flyer programs. they had large disparity in how these companies are responding. it turns out the best is southwest. over 99% ticket availability on the southwest program. only one out of the top five was american airlines. quite training in, worst was 10% availability. if you are going t...

And maybe fewer seats. but more destinations and more connecting options all around the world. at this point you have analysts saying it would be mixed results for people flying on the two airlines. one thing to remember, there would be a merger of the frequent flyer programs. >> what does this mean for my miles? >> they are already in the star alliance together founded by united. but it would be a complete merger of their two programs. what about job cuts? i'll talk to the ceos in an hour, at this point they are saying this will be better long-term stability for their employees because both c...