– Singapore Airlines Krisflyer has launched Krispay and new app that allows you to spend Krisflyer miles at a selected number of merchants (so far mostly in Singapore). I quite like the idea to have miles available to spend on food (not just flights and hotels) brings this loyalty currency much closer to the goal […]
– the new Rapid Rewards Priority Card from Chase comes with a 65,000 sign up bonus (after a massive $16,00 spend) and $149 annual fee but also $75 in credit towards any Southwest purchase – Cathay Pacific Business Class award space is now back to normal and their newly launched route to Seattle (with an […]
– Marriott and Starwood are out with the new award chart for their combined program (yet to be unnamed) effective August 2018 The long story short – the team has typically rounded up or down most properties. There aren’t any shocking good or bad values suddenly. The best redemption seem to be the formerly unaffordable […]
– strong numbers from Vietnamese (and now Thai) LCC Vietjet which reported $60 million in quarterly profits on $600 million in revenue just for Q1! I quite liked Vietjet – though both their Saigon hub and increasingly their operations suffer from overcrowding (as it is the case with Air Asia). – IAG is apparently low-balling […]
China Eastern is at it again and has just posted a number of new fares at $367 Round Trip from Los Angeles to several destinations in South East Asia. We saw Jakarta and Manila/ Clark at this price (i.e. Bali, Ho Chi Minh, Bangkok). You can set the outbound destination to a different than the […]
– good fares from Houston to Nairobi Round Trip $671 with Qatar Airways – good fares from Dublin to San Francisco $361 Round Trip (bags are extra!) – Ottawa to Singapore can be had for $661 Round Trip with ANA and United – a very decent price! – Saudia is back with their excellent fares […]
– American Airlines has good $239 Round Trip New York (LGA) To San Jose (SJC) flights – this is not in Basic Economy – that’s how cheap Ryanair is these days – Tel Aviv to Brussels can be had for $103 Round Trip – amazing – Qatar Airways has the one-way from Helsinki to Pattaya […]
– while it isn’t easy to get visas for Turkey right now, the country has grown up in low-cost aviation with Pegasus (Review), AtlasGlobal (Review), Onur Air (Review) and Turkish Airlines subsidiary AnadoluJet locked in a price war Take this example – after a recent Pegasus sale, Turkish Airlines matched flights from Erzincan in Turkey’s […]
– remote St. Helena has finally gotten its first commercial flight after the long awaited opening of its airport Flights are operated by SA Airlink via Windhoek, Namibia. SA Airlink is a subsidiary of South African Airways ans redemption are generally hard or impossible using Star Alliance Mileage programs. – after snakes on a plane […]
I have become a big fan of the Priority Pass lounges these days. If you travel solo and have elite status (I have only have Star Alliance elite status currently) you will likely have little incentive for Priority Pass but if you travel with family of 2 or three extra passengers you will quickly notice […]