United is back with an end of year promo and they aren’t giving you much time to qualify! I received a postal mailer on Friday which offered 18,000 bonus award miles for spending $1K on qualifying united flights and flying by November 15th. The bonus miles are reduced to 8K if you only spend $800.…
Wow, the number of American AAdvantage miles on offer right now is incredible, literally 180K miles from credit card sign-ups alone, and that’s before hitting the spend requirements thanks to limited time offers from both Citi and Barclaycard! Of course, these can be used for amazing partner redemptions on Etihad, Cathay, JAL, Qatar, and more. That’s just one of a few…
There are certainly many valid safety reasons for getting kicked off a plane, this list doesn’t include any of those. The Cheat Sheet shares their list of the 16 most ridiculous reasons used by airlines to justify removing passengers from flights. I’d say that while some of these removals may have made the flight better for the…
A minor comment from Emirates president Tim Clark has set the Middle East aviation gossip mill into overdrive. Clark told Reuters that Emirates is willing to cooperate with Etihad, but that a complete merger is unlikely. Aviation consultants are ignoring the second part of his quote though! “I think there is value to be had working…
Wow, the number of American AAdvantage miles on offer right now is incredible, literally 180K miles from credit card sign-ups alone, and that’s before hitting the spend requirements thanks to limited time offers from both Citi and Barclaycard! Of course, these can be used for amazing partner redemptions on Etihad, Cathay, JAL, Qatar, and more. That’s just one of a few…
For several years, one of the most generous airlines when it came to award space to and from Europe when booking with Star Alliance miles was Lufthansa. If I needed to book myself or a Juicy Miles client to Europe with United miles (or Aeroplan and ANA miles with fuel surcharges) in a premium cabin,…
LifeMiles is one of my favorite programs when it comes to redeeming Star Alliance award tickets. They may not have the most generous routing rules when it comes to stopovers, but you can fashion basically any reasonable route using the “screenshot-individual-segments-to-email” method. They can also be a pain to cancel, and has recently increased the…
United Airlines is giving its employees a very personal opportunity to bid farewell to perhaps the most fabled airplane in the company’s history. As United prepares to forever end service on the four-engined, hump-nosed Boeing 747, many employees will have the chance to feel, touch and smell the so-called Queen of the Skies for a…
In the wake of the horrible tragedy and deadliest mass shooting in modern US history, Yahoo asks what will happen to the suite that sniper Stephen Paddock rained down terror from. An associate professor of hospitality management tells the site that once the investigation is complete the first thing that has to be done is to…
Hyatt has a new promo out that’s specifically for Hyatt Credit Cardmembers. From October 2, 2017, to January 1, 2018, if cardmembers spend $300 or more on their Hyatt Credit Card at a Hyatt Place or Hyatt House hotel, they will receive a $50 statement credit. In order to be eligible to receive the $50…
