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Another Big Devaluation to Air Canada Elites
I’ve quoted what the official representative on Air Canada has posted on Flyertalk and written a few sentences about each. This is a big devaluation in my opinion 🙁 More miles with many Air Canada fares Starting tomorrow – August 20 – all members will earn more Altitude Qualifying Miles on many Air Canada fares: Earn…
Reminder: US Airways Purchase Miles Promotion (Signup for Accounts!)
Just a reminder that your accounts need to be at least 12 days old to purchase miles, so if you’re considering purchasing miles, you better sign up! You can do that here. You can purchase miles here. My post when the promotion started here. Let’s connect: Twitter | Facebook | Subscribe
What really is the value of a mile?
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…
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…
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