Singapore Airlines Krisflyer sent out emails this morning with changes for award tickets ticketed on/after 23 March 2017. Revisions to Saver Award levels in the Singapore Airlines and SilkAir Award Chart have been made to ensure that flight rewards remain sustainable yet competitive. We had last made adjustments to award levels in various zones in […]
What’s the deal with the Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite MasterCard? With this limited-time offer, you could earn 50,000 bonus American Airlines AAdvantage miles. The current Citi AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite MasterCard credit card has a minimum spend of $3,000 in the first 3 months of your account opening, whereas the usual public offer […]
– AirBerlin topbonus and Rocketmiles are offering up to 20,000 miles for a hotel stay I made some example searches for Hanoi that came up with a $300 and 18,000 miles offer right away. The double miles are only for stays booked before December 31st. Still a great offer! The biggest risk AirBerlin might not […]
Alaska Airlines has had some pretty terrible moments in the past – the overnight devaluation of the Emirates award chart or the rather odd decision to buy Virgin America in the first place for an outrageous 2.6bn. I admit I was not a fan. However the way Alaska Airlines and Mileage Plan are going about […]
– IHG Rewards has released their Q1 2017 Accelerate promotion – as usual it is a different promotion for each account holder This is what I got: This translates into 8,000 bonus points per night – this is excellent value f you travel in Indonesia or China (which have cheap and decent Holiday Inn Express […]
AAdvantage still has one of the most competitive award charts out there. One area that I have always completely disregarded is Africa to Africa in economy class. The American Airlines AAdvantage partner award chart shows this as 10,000 one-way or 20,000 return: Now Africa is a big place and other frequent flier programs charge considerably […]
I’m planning to be in Athens for a night in the summer of 2017. Athens is a great hotel market most of the time – but not in summer! Room rates easily double and given the heat in Athens a well-working Central AC is a top priority of mine. I recently ‘equipped myself’ with 30,000 […]
Something happened yesterday – it started with Skyteam’s sub-$400 fares to Europe from OneWorld hubs. Than it spread to more and more airports and Oneworld matched. We also saw those amazing $400 fares to Europe from Hawaii later yesterday. This morning United and Star Alliance are coming up with similar fares now. Now Air France […]
– Qantas gives you one point per AU$ for spending on AirBnB – not great but also not bad – Chase has caught the AMEX bug and now sends us emails with extra spend bonus points – I got double points for purchases over $1k (single transactions) on my IHG card, not gonna happen though […]
– American Express went from one of the dull boring credit card issuers to be one of the most innovative fixing their product flaws within weeks – that’s how one deals with digital products! The latest – get 2 points for any transactions at Small Businesses until 12/31 when you enroll here. I had been […]