Please check out my giveaway of an AA lounge pass and a Gogo one-time pass! A quick note that Alaska Air and IcelandAir are ending their partnership on June 1st. Award tickets will have to be booked before that date (and no changes after that). This is their award chart to Europe: 500 Free LH…
Thank you! Win a Gogo pass and AA lounge pass!
It’s been just over 200 days since I’ve been blogging and just over a month since I’ve moved to BoardingArea, and I’ve been amazed at what I’ve been able to accomplish over these few weeks! Just to illustrate, here is a great story that just happened: A few weeks ago there was a bit of…
May 27 – Cut Call Center Hold Times, United Miles Sale, Cheap Hotels, Uber
Check out my post earlier today on how to cut call center hold times by avoiding having to listen to hold music by using gethuman! United is again having a sale on award miles at 40% off, which makes one mile at 2.26 cpm if you purchase the more than 25,000 miles. This is until…
Avoiding Long Call Center Hold Music (and Wait Times)
I get quite frustrated trying to be on hold with an agent to book the award (US Airways, I’m looking at you). Something I had originally stumbled upon but not really explored is gethuman.com. When it first launched several years ago, it just provided a list of all the options for the automated system to…
May 24 – Lifemiles responds, Free miles, free chocolate, giveaway
You can get 100 miles in your program of choice (DL, AS, AA, UA, HH) by signing up for ThanksAgain here. Frugal Travel Lawyer talks about how to get free Godiva Chocolate every month. Rewards Canada is also having his fourth week of giveaways. Details here. On another note, Lifemiles sent out a note today about…
May 23 – Avianca Devaluation, Hilton, Air Canada
Very annoying Lifemiles devaluation. Read my post here. Air Canada is offering 150 CAD off roundtrip fares with domestic/transborder flights in Executive Class (select fare buckets). Use promo code EXEC150. Valid for bookings made until May 24 and must travel between June 4 and September 3. Travel needs to originate in Canada. Hilton is offering…
Lifemiles devalues again…. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
So, last week Lifemiles raised some of it’s award prices which you can read about here. It seems like they’ve now increased the price for cash and miles. Originally the cash and miles price was 1.275 cents per mile when you moved the slider all the way to 60%. Now the engine is offering to…
May 22 – Tumblr Hilarity, Award Seats
Don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! No significant news today, so here is a very good post from Gary about when airlines load their award seats. I found this tumblr site hilarious, thanks to Food, Wine, and Miles‘ post on FT. This is my favourite so far: WHEN I ACTUALLY GET A…
(Canada) 20% RBC Avion AA Transfer
This started May 15th and I seemed to have missed it but there is a 20% transfer bonus offer for Canadian RBC Avion Platinum and Infinite cardholders to transfer their Avion to American Aadvantage miles, until June 30, 2013. The minimum transfer amount is 5,000 and after that in 100 point increments. Generally I convert…
May 21 – RGN mistake fare, Marriott Elite Breakfasts
Don’t forget to follow me on Facebook and Twitter! Really, really quiet day today: Starting June 22, Marriott Rewards Gold and Platinum Elite members plus a guest will get free continental breakfast seven days a week in the lounge or restaurant of participating hotels in the U.S. and Canada, the company will announce Tuesday (from USA Today). So…
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