Hyatt Devaluation!!!!!!!!

Today Amol (@pointstopointb) tweeted a link that Hyatt was going to devalue. The new chart is here: Essentially, the new dreaded category 7 is here. Of course, it includes all the aspirational properties, including PH Tokyo, Sydney, Beaver Creek, Milan, Paris, and Zurich. They’ve also taken a bunch of nice hotels and moved them up…

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SPG Points Promo for 2.625 cents

SPG is having one of their seasonal promotions where you an get up to a 25% discount on purchased points. Other than the US Airways (in this case targeted) 100% promotion on purchased miles also happening, this is one of the cheapest ways to purchase “exotic” airline miles for international first class redemptions. SPG has fantastic,…

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HUGE UNITED DEVALUATION

This is awful. Expected, but it seems the severity of the changes are absolutely awful. United has revised award chart prices for Star Alliance and United metal awards. http://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/news/United-Award-Chart-02-01-14.pdf For reference, here is the old award chart. Here is the new star alliance chart: There’s a lot of numbers, but Europe in Business goes from 50k…

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How to book Singapore Airlines Business and First Class Space with miles

Over the weekend I redeemed some KrisFlyer miles for Singapore Suites, which I am very excited about. So today I thought I’d also go over how to book them. Introduction Singapore Airlines doesn’t release seats to star alliance partners in general (with the exception of more business class space with Avianca Lifemiles and Miles & More),…

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