Things to Know This Week: Venture 10% off Hotels.com Not Ending (Probably), Avianca LifeMiles...
I'm on vacation until April 7th and I hope you are following me on Instagram because I'm posting lots of great pictures... Emirates First Class, the Al Maha Resort in Dubai, the W Maldives...
Review: The Private Suite at LAX [Guest Post]
This is a guest post by British travel enthusiast Benjamin Black. He likes to splurge in ways many of us would not, so I appreciate his willingness to review travel experiences like this that...
Review: Business Class – United 787-10 Dreamliner Newark to Los Angeles
Because I'm a miles geek, perhaps the most exciting part of this review is how I booked the flight, using an extreme example of Frequent Flyer Mile Arbitrage.
Were you able to actually find availability...
Marriott’s Category Changes, One Day Tahiti Award Flight Sale, 50% off Business Class...
Marriott's new Category 8 and 2019 Category Adjustments
Gary at View from the Wing dissects these changes in great detail, so no need for me to duplicate. Suffice it to say, lots of hotels are...
United Explorer Business Card: 75,000 Bonus Miles; First Year Fee Waived
For those of you still under 5/24, here's a decent proposition:
The United Explorer Business Card is offering 75,000 bonus miles and a waiver on the first year's annual fee. This is the best offer...
Shopping Portal Bonus Season: Up to 5,000 miles
American, Alaska, Southwest & United are all offering bonuses of up to 5,000 miles when you hit various spend thresholds during the holiday season. This means October 29th to November 18th this time.
Despite the same...
30% Transfer Bonus Marriott –> United (+10% more)
United has a limited time offer on right now to register and then convert hotel points with a 30% bonus. The ratios in all hotel to airline programs stink, so ignore all but one: Marriott.
Let me...
Award Availability Alert: UA Biz EWR-LAX 787-10 Dreamliner
You may have heard this week that United is launching service on the new 787-10 Dreamliner (with 1-2-1 true Polaris seating) on its EWR to LAX and EWR to SFO transcon routes.
The new flights...
Shopping Portal Mileage Bonuses Galore
It's not a surprise that offers like these tend to come all at once, since the eShopping portals of the airlines are mostly managed by the same company. Here are the deals (all of...
United MilePlay is back
I've been targeted twice previously by United for a MilePlay promo and just got a new one. In short, MilePlay is how United tries to incentivize you to do one or more activities -...
