American Airlines is again having a points sale with tiered bonuses on purchased miles via points.com. You can purchase miles here. The bonuses are as follows: Unfortunately Canadian residents will get tacked with HST/GST which brings the price up to around just under $1700 (for BC anyways where the soon to be scrapped HST is 12%).…
Singapore announces new premium classes
Singapore Air just released images of the new business and first class seats that it plans to introduce on the 77W’s and new A350’s with. This is a video from Youtube with some footage. Here are some photos from AUSBT: This is the new business class which will first be on the SIN-LHR route. I…
ex-CMB fares “pulled”
It seems like the CMB fares have been raised by 50% which is the biggest blow to this fare since EK didn’t allow this fare to be booked with their flights. ExpertFlyer now shows a different fare code (I believe the original one was AAOWISC): This prices as $3500 on ITA Matrix: It seems the…
Details of Aeroplan’s Enhancements: Other Changes
This is a continuation of my evaluation on Aeroplan’s changes which I discussed here. I’ve split this analysis into four parts. This is the final post in the series of four: Part I – Distinction Part II – Award Chart Part III – Co-branded Credit Cards Part IV – Various other bits and pieces, including market-fares flight awards (This…
Award Program Redemption Satisfaction
I came across this article and survey a few days ago and thought it would be nice to share. Apparently, Frequent Business Traveller asked frequent flyers to rate their award programs. The answers were either “very satisfied”, “satisfied”, or “not satisfied.” Here are the results: I am really surprised at is how Aeroplan places at…
Details of Aeroplan’s Enhancements: Credit Cards
This is a continuation of my evaluation on Aeroplan’s changes which I discussed here. I’ve split this analysis into four parts. This is the third post in the series of four: Part I – Distinction Part II – Award Chart Part III – Co-branded Credit Cards (This Part) Part IV – Various other bits and pieces, including market-fares flight…
Increased AMEX SPG (Canada) Signup Bonus!
The SPG AMEX Card has its public signup offer increased until September 25, 2013: For a limited time you can earn 20,000 Welcome Bonus Starpoints after you charge $1,000 in purchases to your Card in your first three months of Cardmembership Earn 1 Starpoint for $1 in purchases charged to the Card Enjoy a Free Weekend Night Award when you reach $40,000…
Award Alert: Virgin Atlantic Upper Class without surcharges!
So earlier Delta decided to buy Singapore’s 49% ownership of Virgin Atlantic. The partnership details are here, and we can start to see VS award availability bookable with DL miles trickling in. If you want to book Virgin Atlantic Economy class, you are probably better looking at Virgin Atlantic miles transferred from SPG or Chase…
Details of Aeroplan’s Enhancements: Award Chart
This is a continuation of my evaluation on Aeroplan’s changes which I discussed here. I’ve split this analysis into four parts. This is the second of the four posts – the other parts are as follows: Part I – Distinction Part II – Award Chart (This Part) Part III – Co-branded Credit Cards Part IV…
Uber is offering $45 for your first ride!
There has been a $25 (USD) dollar Amazon Local voucher for one ride which you can access here. There are still 9 days left to purchase, but there is a limited quantity, so I would suggest getting them quickly. However, what also is interesting is that Uber has also sent out an email where you…
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