How Airlines Quietly Became Banks

Wendover Productions December 14, 2021
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For a limited time, save 60% on your first 3 months of Audible at http://Audible.com/wendover Watch Extremities at http://youtube.com/extremities Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: https://standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/products/wendover-productions-shirt Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): https://www.youtube.com/halfasinteresting Youtube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions Writing by Sam Denby Editing by Alexander Williard Animation by Josh Sherrington Sound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster References: [1] https://americanairlines.gcs-web.com/static-files/ceb67596-d59a-41e3-ad0c-b5556dd43b4a [2] https://ir.united.com/static-files/1c0f0c79-23ca-4fd2-80c1-cf975348bab9 [3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257430933_30_years_of_frequent_flyer_programs Select footage courtesy Getty and AP; Select imagery courtesy Geolayers; Select music courtesy Epidemic sound

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