British Airways has just increased their change and cancellation fees for Avios award tickets. Change/Redeposit fees have now gone up from 40 USD all the way to 55 USD. It’s not significant, although this does make it a bit more painful to cancel flights though. I also don’t like that there was no advance notice. Existing…
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American Express Platinum Canada Worth It?
Update: The Platinum Card is now offering 75,000 Points as a Signup Bonus! In my opinion, the American Express Platinum Canada Card is the best card out there for travel benefits. As long as you travel at least once a year and manage your credit well, I think it’s a must have in your wallet,…
Marriott Rewards Category Changes 2014
Marriott has just released a document containing the category changes for 2014. Award Devaluation The current award chart is as follows: There are no new creation of award categories (unlike last year). Marriott says: 73% of the properties remain unchanged. 66% of the programs properties will remain in Categories 1-4. 27% of the hotels are…
(USA) Hawaiian Airlines Mastercard now issued by Barclays
Key Link: Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite MasterCard® Today I got an email from my affiliate company which told me the about the relaunch of the Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite MasterCard®, which previously was not on the affiliate network but now is. It’s has an offer with 35,000 points and an annual fee of $89. I’m sure some…
Lifemiles Transfer Promotion 100% Bonus!
Lifemiles is my one of my favourite programs to buy miles in – because certain parts of the award chart are just extremely lucrative. They’ve run several promotions where you can purchase miles for just 1.5 cents each and FINALLY, there is a Lifemiles transfer promotion for part of the month of March. Lifemiles Transfer Promotion…
Andaz Tokyo open for booking!
The Andaz Tokyo is a new Hyatt property in Tokyo that I have been watching with great interest. Along with the Park Hyatt New York (which is now bookable) and the Park Hyatt Vienna, this is one of the properties I’m really interested in staying at this year. Today I now see that the Andaz…
Canada AMEX Platinum Oneworld Sapphire Last Chance!
I personally consider the American Express Platinum Card (Canada) to have the best benefits among all Canadian Credit cards. One of the pretty amazing benefits offered include Cathay Pacific Gold Elite status, which gives you oneworld sapphire tier status, which is their mid-tier level. The benefits are as good as it gets if you’re not…
AA Stopover In A “Non-Gateway City”
Jeff: I was reading through my RSS one day when I noticed a very interesting post from Shawn at Miles To Memories about AA Gateway City Stopovers. He kindly agreed to write a guest post for me. 🙂 AA Stopover Gateway City It is well known in the miles and points community that American Airlines has…
Lufthansa First Class Available in Advance!!!
I am seeing space on Vancouver – Munich and Montreal – Munich in Lufthansa First Class wide OPEN for First Class awards through the end of the schedule!!! There may be other flights, but at this moment with the few routes I’ve checked these seem to be the only routes that have first class award space…
TAM First Class Awards WIDE OPEN!
TAM First Class is probably the most unattainable product in First Class with miles, along with Transaero. While scarcity might not mean that the product is great (just look at Ben flying China Southern), space is absolute WIDE OPEN from JFK. They also only have a 4 seat cabin on their new first class on…
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