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Win One of 52 Trips with the Hilton Ultimate Weekender Sweepstakes
Hilton Hotels often runs sweepstakes, but The Ultimate Weekender is a little different from most. It’s running throughout 2014, until January 2, 2015, and there are several ways to enter and win one of...
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American Airlines Offering Easy Platinum Status Trials
Posted by RJNYC and Maxwell Smart on FlyerTalk, it appears that American Airlines is making another push to attract converts from other carriers to its own AAdvantage loyalty program. Multiple...
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Week in Review: January 5-11
As mentioned last week, I used to spend a lot of time on these reviews, probably more than I should have. But there is still information out there I never get around to sharing and builds up in my RSS...
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One United Mile Equals 0.87 Ultimate Rewards Points
UPDATE: Since there appears to be some confusion about my intentions with this post, allow me to clarify that it is not meant primarily as a criticism of Chase or Ultimate Rewards. I find their...
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Bitcoin? PointsHound Offers a New Kind of “Cash Back”
Early last week I was poking around my usual travel sites scouting out a family trip to Hawaii when I noticed something odd: PointsHound has quietly started offering bitcoin as a new option instead of...
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Earn 50% bonus miles on American and US Airways codeshare flights
American Airlines just sent out an e-mail that starting today (January 13, 2014) until March 2, 2014, you can earn 50% more AAdvantage miles for all travel on US Airways flights with Promotion Code...
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Attend Aviation Geek Fest 2014 in Seattle!
Scrolling through my Twitter feed yesterday I came across Aviation Geek Fest. It’s an annual event, and this year they’ve planned a two day bonanza that includes VIP tours of museums and facilities at...
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Win Free Nights and Points from Starwood
To celebrate their new partnership with Caesars Entertainment, Starwood Hotels launched a new instant win game yesterday. It’s not too complicated: Enter your SPG number, click a button to spin the...
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AA Confuses Regional Jets with Intl Business Class
American Eagle Airlines — a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines — has been working on a name change for a while in an effort to distinguish itself from American Eagle — the broader name for...
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“Meals at Mealtime” Making a Comeback at Delta
Just a few months before United Airlines and Continental Airlines merged, Continental was one of the last domestic carriers to offer free meals on some domestic flights to its economy class passengers....
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Honeymoon Trip Report: Thai Airways Business Class DPS-BKK and BKK-HKT
Megan and I took a two-week tour of Southeast Asia during our honeymoon in August/September of last year. Now it’s time to wrap up the trip report after a holiday break. Here’s the Trip Report Index:...
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How to Buy US Miles for 1.88 Cents & AA Miles for 2.28 Cents
American Airlines and US Airways are merging, so their loyalty programs will eventually be merged and can already be used to book award travel on each others’ flights. It is very likely that miles in...
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Fare Sale: SEA to Boston on AA for $268 (3.8 CPM) or AS for $218 (4.4 CPM)
HT to Jimgotkp on FlyerTalk for sharing this deal from Seattle to Boston on American Airlines. You can route through DFW with a single stop in each direction, as he suggested, and get the price down to...
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Hack My Trip Now Partners with Award Magic
In the past I often received emails asking for help booking award tickets or suggestions of who to contact for that assistance. I quickly decided that running my own award booking service was not what...
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No Third Thursday This Month
Just a heads up for those interested: I won’t be hosting the usual third Thursday meetup tomorrow. A big reason for that is that I’m a lot busier than I used to be when I started. Another reason is...
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Honeymoon Trip Report: St. Regis Bangkok
Megan and I took a two-week tour of Southeast Asia during our honeymoon in August/September of last year. Now it’s time to wrap up the trip report after a holiday break. Here’s the Trip Report Index:...
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Confirmed: EQMs on AA and US will be Combined for 2015 Elite Status
HT to Loyalty Lobby for finding some fine print that confirms US Airways and American Airlines will combine the elite qualifying flights you complete with either carrier when determining your elite...
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Honeymoon Trip Report: Westin Siray Bay Phuket
Megan and I took a two-week tour of Southeast Asia during our honeymoon in August/September of last year. Now it’s time to wrap up the trip report after a holiday break. Here’s the Trip Report Index:...
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Hello from Singapore Airlines New First Class!
I’m onboard Singapore Airlines 424 from Singapore to Mumbai on aircraft 9V-SWU, one of SQ’s newest Boeing 777-300ERs. If you’re not one of those geeks who keep track of aircraft registrations, this...
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Fare Sale: PDX-Fort Lauderdale for $250 on DL (3.7 CPM)
Credit as usual to The Flight Deal for putting me on the scent when they shared a fare between PDX and FLL for only $242 with one stop each way in Atlanta. I did some digging and was able to add a...
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