The Naples, Florida Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort is available for $129/night during the week through October 13th. Nice rate.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for August 2004.
It’s not just Safeway and Vons anymore
Haagen supermarkets (Washington and Oregon) are offering Alaska Airlines miles for purchases through September 21 – including triple miles on Tuesdays.
Spin to Win AA Miles
Learn how to update your American Airlines profile and spin a wheel to win 50, 500, 5000, or 50,000 miles (or just a discount from HP shopping). (Hat tip to Free Frequent Flyer Miles.)
The government may grow but some things are still legal
At least unless a Dutch MP has his way The Dutch Labour party wants to pass a law making unsolicited toe-licking an offence after police were unable to prosecute a would-be Casanova with a taste for female toes because he had committed no crime.
More on Signaling and Anti-Trust
Several months ago I wrote that airlines used “fuel surcharges” rather than price increases as a way of signaling, announcing their intentions to change fares in an attempt to coordinate pricing with other carriers. They need to utilize these smoke signals so as not to run afoul of anti-trust laws. Or so they hope. American has settled a Justice Department probe, agreeing to a $3 million fine for violating terms of the 1994 decree by publishing certain fares with increased advance purchase requirements only for future travel dates, rather than current travel. This effectively reduced American’s risk of losing passengers to other airlines. American was publicly announcing future price changes which didn’t affect current bookings, and waited to see whether other carriers matched. If other airlines didn’t make similar changes, they could rescind their price…
Update on the 25,000 Mile Delta Offer
It’s been confirmed that the offer of 25,000 Delta miles for signing up as for an Intercontinental Hotels Ambassador Club membership is valid and open to everyone. (Thanks to Gary Steiger of Free Frequent Flyer Miles for doing legwork on this.) It’s a pretty great offer. For $150 you get 25,000 Delta miles, Ambassador status at Intercontinental hotels, Gold status at other Priority Club properties, and a free weekend night certificate valid on a two-night weekend stay.
More Tahiti deals
Yesterday I mentioned a special $340 roundtrip from LA to Tahiti with a very specific itinerary (one outbound flight, one return flight only). There are some other pretty good Tahiti deals going on with a little bit more flexibility, such as $899 per person (based on double occupancy) for air and six nights lodging on Moorea.
Flowers
The 30 United miles per dollar spent offer at FTD still works – and what a value! The banner welcomes United 1K members, but I’ve confirmed time and again that the offer works for anyone regardless of status with United.
Finally!
After several technical glitches, I finally completed the Free Flat Screen TV offer.The free iPod offer is still worth doing, I completed mine weeks ago. For folks getting started, the idea is that you sign up with either (or both) websites. You have to complete an offer and then refer friends who complete offers. Then you get the reward, an iPod or a flat screen TV. The website makes money because it’s paid by advertisers based on getting people to sign up for their offers. That’ll almost cover the cost of each iPod or TV. Plus they know that lots of folks will do one or two offers and never finish, and they make money on the slippage. The key is to take advantage of offers that don’t cost anything. The simplest one is to…
Site59 Discount
Play a game for up to $125 in discounts from last-minute travel package provider Site59. (Thanks to David Rowell.)
