Lifemiles is having their 100% purchased miles bonus again. Remember, they are sold in blocks of 1,000 at 3 cents per miles, which means a 100% promo brings it down to 1.5 cents per mile. Purchase between August 1st and the 31st, with a maximum purchase of 75,000 miles and minimum of 1,000 miles. Purchases…
Changes to IHG Best Rate Guarantee
The IHG (Intercontinental Hotels Group) Best Rate Guarantee is very generous and probably the most generous BRG program of all the major chains, because it offers a free night if you can get your claim approved. In fact, I think it’s a bit too generous because you have many “travel hackers” trying to leverage these…
Award Maximizing: Virgin Around the World with Skypesos
SkypesosMiles are derided by many to be the worst points/miles currency. No international first class redemptions. Horrible online pricing engine. Clueless agents. 3-tier award structure which means 325,000 miles for a transpacific/transatlantic redemption because it’s extremely difficult to find low seats. I’ve never been really interested in SkyMiles for those reasons, except that my award…
Cathay Pacific Refreshes First Class on 77W’s
Cathay Pacific has released details of it’s refurbishment of the new First Class via a press release, and it looks pretty nice as CX already has a very strong first class product. The 747’s are not being retrofitted as they are being retired. Here are some pictures: At first glance it looks like the colour…
HUGE AEROPLAN DEVALUATION
I know some people might disagree with me, but I think this is definitely worse the the “enhancements” that Aeroplan brought in a few weeks back. It’s not Aeroplan’s doing at all, but I would think it is indirectly related to the AA/US merger. What has happened this morning is that the Aeroplan -> US…
Credit Card Interchange Fees
Today, the Canadian Competition Bureau has just rejected a complaint from retailers about changing the way they pay fees to Visa and Mastercard. I found it interesting to read, as I know that in the States it is illegal in several states for retailers to charge “swipe fees.” It’s almost given that this would never happen…
Award Alert: Cathay Pacific to the Maldives!
Cathay Pacific hinted on Twitter at a new destination and finally yesterday (this morning) they announced that the new destination would be the Maldives (MLE). The flights are as follows: CX601 HKG1715 – 2125MLE 333 x125 CX602 MLE2335 – 0855+1HKG 333 x125 CX will be using A330 3-cabin aircraft, with economy, premium economy, and the…
Starwood “Luxury Privileges” Program
What I thought was worth mentioning was that Starwood is also now starting their own in-house partner programs for luxury properties, similar to Four Season’s Preferred Parter program which may be more familiar. I really like Virtuoso and AMEX FHR especially for properties that don’t have elite status and it looks like this is a…
A Free Award Booking Service?
UPDATE: I’ve been swamped with so many requests that should you wish to fill in the form, I am going to ask you to be on my “waiting list!” I’m really sorry. PLEASE CHECK MY “NEED AWARD HELP?” PAGE TO SEE WHERE I AM AT WITH THE BOOKINGS! I’ve said multiple times that I write because…
LX Responds to the RGN mistake fare
I wrote about the CTA decision on the RGN mistake fare around a month ago. Today, it seems like Swiss sent in a letter to the CTA asking them to “review and rescind” the decision. It also seems that they read my blog, as they’re basing some of their argument on what I wrote. You can…
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