A few days ago I tried to talk about how it’s very difficult to value a mile especially with hotel redemptions. It will differ for everyone. I personally use the lowest price you would have paid on a redemption to evaluate the value of my redemption. I think miles sitting in your account is extremely difficult…
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Air France Promo Awards Released for September/October
With Air France Promo Awards you can save 25% – 50% off the miles required for a redemption. Since they’ve raised the award price for business class from 100,000 to 125,000 miles it isn’t so great, but still at 31,250 miles for a one-way it might work if you can find availability on your dates.…
Big News of the Day – August 14
Delta Devaluation BusinessElite® low mileage redemption: Many of you have experienced first hand our significant investments in products over the past several years. In June 2014, we will be the only U.S. carrier to offer full flat-bed seats with direct aisle access in Business Class across our entire wide-body fleet. Our premium cabins will also…
Award Alert: Cathay Pacific from Newark!
Just very recently Cathay Pacific announced that they would begin service to a new destination (either Seattle, Miami, Newark, or Boston). The new destination is Newark and reservations for the new route has already opened! They are serving this with a 3 cabin Economy/Premium Economy/Business (no first class) configuration with the following schedule (as seen…
Good Value in the Aeroplan Award Chart – “Sweet Spots”
I often fault Aeroplan for being a very weak program because they have high fuel surcharges on certain airlines, fairly high award chart redemption prices, and semi-restrictive routing policies (but then every award program has it’s own quirks). But I think it’s worth mentioning a few redemptions where I believe the Aeroplan redemption costs are equal…
All About Luxury Hotel Rates
While redeeming points are a good way to get a high value out of your points with luxury hotels, one other booking option you should consider are paid cash rates through certain companies and consortiums. Instead of booking directly with the hotel, you can often get more benefits working with certain kinds of travel agents.…
Are good hotel redemptions not all about points?
Generally Hyatt top-tier redemptions are very aspirational, and I don’t disagree with that. If redeemed properly, it’s very possible to afford rooms/hotels that would be out of a normal person’s price point. For example the Park Hyatt Paris is $830 USD or 22,000 points: But sometime you have to learn to live without Hyatt Points. For…
AA miles for sale at 2.2 cents!
American is holding their bonus promotions for buying miles again. I’ve written about this before, and this time the price goes down to 2.2 cents per mile if you purchase at the maximum amount. They are offering a 25% discount along with 2,000 bonus miles if you purchase more than 20,000. You must do this…
Huge Improvement to British Airways Award Searches!
Twitter has been buzzing with several new news items today, and of course one of them is the increased signup bonus for the (USA) Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. But what also is really nice is that British Airways has improved their search engine, now letting you see all classes of service!…
Videos of the BA A380
The first British Airways A380 flights have finally started running between London and Frankfurt, and I found this really nice video/trip report of the first and business (club world) classes. It looks really nice and I hope to be on one of their long-haul flights soon! Club World First Class I hope you enjoyed these…
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