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Gary Leff
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View from the Wing
Speaker Bio
Gary Leff has authored View From The Wing since 2002. He’s been named a World’s Top Travel Specialist by Conde’ Nast Traveler each year since 2010.
He’s served as an expert witness in federal trials related to air travel bookings, rewards programs, and civil asset forfeiture and regularly consults financial firms and banks on loyalty program valuation and design.
Gary has appeared across major media, from Stephen Colbert (who called him “the expert on frequent flyer miles”) to the The Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and nearly every major cable television news show. He’s been profiled in Town & Country, Executive Travel, Washington Post, and Washington Business Journal. And he regularly keynotes industry conferences.
Observers have called him an “Air Genius” and “an airline industry brainiac, who you might think of as the Nate Silver of his domain.” He has also been called “sagacious” by legendary business travel writer Joe Brancatelli and “the godfather of the [frequent flyer] hobby” in Rolling Stone. Ron Lieber of the New York Times says that his “trenchant blogging about the airline industry gives some executives fits.”
In addition to roles in travel, he serves as CFO of two university research centers with combined $70 million budget and 300 employees, and has worked extensively in fundraising having written under the signatures of two Speakers of the House and a Majority Leader.
He’s served as an expert witness in federal trials related to air travel bookings, rewards programs, and civil asset forfeiture and regularly consults financial firms and banks on loyalty program valuation and design.
Gary has appeared across major media, from Stephen Colbert (who called him “the expert on frequent flyer miles”) to the The Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and nearly every major cable television news show. He’s been profiled in Town & Country, Executive Travel, Washington Post, and Washington Business Journal. And he regularly keynotes industry conferences.
Observers have called him an “Air Genius” and “an airline industry brainiac, who you might think of as the Nate Silver of his domain.” He has also been called “sagacious” by legendary business travel writer Joe Brancatelli and “the godfather of the [frequent flyer] hobby” in Rolling Stone. Ron Lieber of the New York Times says that his “trenchant blogging about the airline industry gives some executives fits.”
In addition to roles in travel, he serves as CFO of two university research centers with combined $70 million budget and 300 employees, and has worked extensively in fundraising having written under the signatures of two Speakers of the House and a Majority Leader.
