Update: As the sale for buying Melia Miles is now over, you can expect the price of the ticket to be around $450-500, which is still a great deal if revenue ticket prices are through the roof. How to get a United BusinessFirst Lie-Flat seat for $325: Nearly everything is about evaluating the value of…
SPG devalues LAN Transfer Ratio!
As you may well know, SPG points are extremely flexible transferable a bunch of airline miles. I didn’t notice this until just a few minutes ago, and I saw this on twitter that SPG had changed it’s transfer ratio to LANPass. I went and checked the Starwood Airline Transfer Partner Page, and lo and behold: Wow,…
Alaska’s Partner Award Engine and Award Space
Given that Alaska started allowing one-way awards on most of their partners including Emirates, Cathay Pacific, and Qantas just under a few days ago, their value in my eyes have gone up significantly, because there is now so much flexibility in their awards. Right now you aren’t allowed to use can’t have an award where…
Daily Getaways Final Week Preview!
I have to say I am pretty disappointed with what Daily Getaways has to offer this year. Not only are there more and more people trying to get packages, but the “good” packages are either not present, significantly devalued (Wyndham), or seriously a joke (Hyatt). Yes that’s right. There are Hyatt Gold Passport Points available,…
Daily Getaways Week Four Preview is out!
The preview of the fourth week of Daily Getaways have now been released. From a cursory glance, it seems like there isn’t anything spectacular, but the IHG points sale are back. I am still waiting for Hyatt points and SPG points to be on sale. No luck so far, but hopefully they’ll be something nicer…
A few items… (Updated)
Apparently everyone else on BoardingArea says that we are going to close comments and no new posts are going to go up starting tonight, so I will see everyone next week! I will be on twitter so feel free to tweet me if anything interesting pops up! So a few days ago I posted a mistake fare…
UA is Changing Award Fees!
As the title says, United has changed its award fees, not for the better. This is really horrible, after what happen with PQD’s (Premier Qualifying Dollars) being implemented for US residents (luckily we Canadians are not affected by this). United previously allowed changes for free more than 21 days out as long as the origin…
EVA Air Updates: Bookable with Aeroplan!
You can now you your Aeroplan miles to book EVA Air flights. As I mentioned yesterday these flights were already bookable with Lifemiles. It really is a great source of TPAC space, although you should really start booking now, as the space is going quite fast. This morning, I saw space everyday from Dec 15…
Mistake Fare (RGN): CTA Ruling
As you may well know, I am involved in a Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) case against Swiss International Airlines for their unilateral cancellation of fares issued on Swiss ticket stock from “Round 3” of the erroneous fares. You can see what happens in View From the Wing’s post here. The massive FT thread about the…
Mistake Fare: JNB-GVA/ZRH OW $513!!!
Working as of 12:57 Pacific Time June 17th 2013 There is a misfiled one-way fare (seems like they left off a digit) from Johannesburg to Geneva/Zurich via Istanbul, in business class! Book with united.com (not an affiliate link, thanks for your support!). DO NOT CALL THE AIRLINES! Please comment below on the post if you have…
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