News and Notes from Around the Interweb:

• Doing well by doing good: generating spending and miles and points by making Kiva micro-loans (that should eventually get repaid). There’s an entire forum dedicated to discussing Kiva on Milepoint.

• Free points for taking various surveys

• Hotel advice (repost):
  • How to Score the Best Hotel Room Upgrades
  • Using Hotel Points for Suites and Upgraded Rooms
  • How to Get a Suite Every Time at Hyatt
  • Which Hotel Program is Most Rewarding for Your Spending?

• UberX is free in DC through Friday

• I didn’t have the chance to make it to the grand opening yesterday of the new American Express lounge at Dallas Fort-Worth airport, but Mommy Points snapped a few photos.

• Lufthansa now operates fifteen lounges at the Frankfurt airport and the airport itself is home to more than two dozen.

• Iranian airline Mehan Air is operating second-hand Lufthansa planes. Even they don’t call the ‘old’ Lufthansa first class product first, preferring BusinessPlus instead. I found the padding on these seats uncomfortable three years ago. Time to speed up the rest of the fleet conversion, Lufthansa!

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