United is offering a promotion on purchasing miles which other bloggers have talked about. However, since the bonus is now 60%, which makes the points just under 2.4 cents each to purchase, I thought it would be important to bring up a cheaper way to purchase United miles which I do not think the others…
Redeem AA miles on TAM/LAN Colombia
This afternoon I just saw on twitter (and follow me if you haven’t) that you can now redeem AAdvantage miles on all eligible LAN Colombia and TAM Airlines flights. TAM I think is actually still in Star Alliance (but they should be moving to oneworld next year) so it’s interesting to now have an airline where…
AMEX Gold (Canada) 25,000 points signup bonus!!!
This morning American Express has raised the signup bonus to the very generous 20,000 (21,000) point signup offer with first year waived. Now AMEX has raised the bonus to 25,000 points!!! It doesn’t seem that this is a limited-time offer as there’s no mention of an expiration date, so this is absolutely fantastic! You earn…
Man goes quite the lengths to get baggage from British Airways
This morning I read a post by Jamison @ Points Summary about someone who lost their bags on British Airways and went to quite some lengths to try and get their bags back which included tweeting relentlessly, creating memes, and purchasing promoted twitter posts, after British Airways lost his bags on a business trip which…
25% Hotel Points to Avios Transfer Promo
Avios is having a promotion for miles transferred in from hotel programs, with a 25% bonus on most hotel programs until October 15. It’s very straightforward with all the hotel programs which are included (Club Carlson, Marriott, Hyatt, SPG, Shangri-La, and IHG). Again with hotel transfers the ratios are generally very poor so the only…
Great SPG + Aeroplan Promotion
There is a great fall promotion by Starwood similar to the one last year. Stay 5 nights and get 5000 Aeroplan miles Stay 2 more nights (7 total) and get 2000 more (7000 total) Stay 2 more again (9 total) and get 2000 more again (9000 total) You’re just a few short steps from up…
The most insane flight of my life
If you’re still awake at this time, you may have heard on the interwebs/twitterverse that there was a Thai flight that encountered some air turbulence: Well, I was on the flight. I can say definitely the most insane flight of my life. Definitely it was very dangerous. The period of time where I got freaked…
When does flying first class make sense?
Points Summary and One Mile at A Time posted about why to fly/not fly first class and since they are both awesome naturally I had to write a reply of my own. From a perspective of having flown some first class products and some business class products, I can see some definitely valid reasons for…
My New Mileage Run Page!
I’ve been looking for elite status this year thanks to the previous AA limited time status match (now expired) and so now I am looking for mileage runs. So I have decided to put up a mileage run page on my site which is now live (but still under construction). The cities where I will post…
A few thoughts on Thai (old) First Class
Good morning from Sydney! I just got there on Thai First Class and as such I thought I’d write a few thoughts about it like I did with Cathay Pacific First Class. First of all Thai (Royal) First Ground services is epic. Also apologies for the more intermittent posting schedule. 🙂 I’m sure you’ve may…
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