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Hacking Award Seats to Asia: All 177 Routes!
In the last installment, we looked at all 403 Trans-Atlantic routes where award seats can be booked with miles. Now we turn our attention to Asia to find additional cities that aren’t hub captive, but...
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Visiting China without a Visa for 72 Hours
When I took my sister to Southeast Asia for the first time last month, I wanted to visit several new destinations. Hong Kong was still on the list. We just connected through Bangkok without leaving the...
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Virgin America Has a New Referral Program
Virgin America has a new referral program and website to promote it: Loyalty Made Me Do It. It’s an interesting way to encourage you to… join a loyalty program. There are two basic flavors of loyalty...
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Discounts on Alaska Airlines to SoCal, Boston, and Mexico
Alaska Airlines has a couple of promotions out that caught my attention recently. The first is a month-long special on flights to Mexico. Each week this month a different destination (or destinations)...
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Me and Jimmy Down By The “Wanna Get Away” Fares
A few weeks ago when I wrote about high annual fee premium credit cards (see “The First Step To Recovery Is Admitting You Pay High Annual Fees“), I talked a little bit about Jimmy, a good buddy of...
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Silvercar Is Expanding to Denver, Plus Save $50
Next to the winding roads of California’s wine country and coastal areas, I can’t think of a better place to take advantage of Silvercar’s all-Audi A4 fleet than Denver and the nearby Rocky Mountains....
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My Hyatt Concierge (Yes, Mine!)
Hyatt Gold Passport is testing a new service it calls “My Hyatt Concierge,” which was first shared yesterday by Loyalty Lobby and View from the Wing. But unlike Gary, who’s already a member of the...
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How to Use ITA Matrix to Avoid (or Find) Codeshares
Many airlines operate codeshare flights. These are flights operated by one carrier (sometimes referred to as “the metal”) but sold with a different flight number. For example, American Airlines doesn’t...
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Air India Joins Star Alliance and No Fuel Surcharges with Aeroplan!
Air India joined Star Alliance today and from the first impressions, it looks like they have some pretty decent availability. Looking on the Aeroplan website, it looks like most of their routes are...
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Alaska Airlines Will Launch New Boeing Space Bins
If you choose to check your bags, Alaska Airlines guarantees you’ll get in in 20 minutes or less — and promises a choice between a $25 voucher or 2,500 Mileage Plan miles (worth about $50) if it’s...
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Free $25 Uber Gift Card at Some Banana Republic Stores
I’m really not sure how broadly available this offer is, but it appears that many Banana Republic stores in the Seattle area are offering a free $25 Uber gift card this weekend and this may be possible...
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T-Mobile’s Simple Choice Plan Works Well for International Travelers
About a month ago I wrote about T-Mobile’s new Simple Choice Plan, which includes free international data and text message in over 120 countries as well as calls for only 20 cents a minute. It could be...
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Review: Hyatt Regency DFW Airport
Last December I took a trip to Amarillo to visit my in-laws and spent a night at the Hyatt Regency DFW International Airport along the way. It’s one of two Hyatt hotels located at DFW, though unlike...
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Hyatt and MGM Create New Digital Hub for Las Vegas
I’ve been fairly impressed with Hyatt Gold Passport’s online media efforts lately. They had a blog for a while, but sometime last year they relaunched Keyed into Hyatt, which has since offered some...
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Did Hyatt Outwit The Devil’s Advocate?
I am thrilled to report (and I am sure you are all thrilled to hear) that this past Friday I successfully completed my Hyatt Diamond Trial. As a result, I now have Diamond status with Hyatt until the...
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Kimpton Revamps Loyalty Program: Karma Rewards
Last year I matched to Kimpton’s loyalty program, InTouch, and made good use of it with stays at Hotel Vintage Plaza in Portland, EPIC Hotel in Miami, Lorien Hotel & Spa in Alexandria, and Alexis...
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Hacking Award Seats Down Under – All 28 Routes to Australia/NZ
Over the past two weeks, we looked at finding the routes with the least demand to Europe and the Asia: Hacking Award Seats to Europe – All 403 Routes – Part 1 of 5 Hacking Award Seats to Asia – All 177...
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Hacking Award Seats to South America – All 132 Routes
Given our past attention to places farther from home, we round out the next part of this series with a look at award seats and routes to South America. Part 1 – Hacking Award Seats to Europe – All 403...
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Who Flies There?
I led three sessions at FTU Advanced last weekend, and all of them were open ended. But for the most part I was leading people through different tools like ExpertFlyer, Award Nexus, and ITA Matrix....
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Will a Certain Fellow Blogger Please Calm Down About Lufthansa?
From the desk of the Devil’s Advocate… I was at FTU Advanced this past weekend and had an absolute blast meeting and chatting with folks and exchanging ideas about loyalty programs. It’s great to be...
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