Yearly Archives

Yearly Archives for 2006.

Delta Multiple Ticket Purchase Bonus

by Gary Leff

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Jan 03 2006

Delta is offering bonus miles for booking multiple tickets at once online. Registration is required. SkyMiles members can earn bonus miles on all Delta, Delta Shuttle®, Delta Connection® carrier or Song® flights, for every flown round-trip ticket purchased at delta.com using your American Express Card and flown between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006. For transactions including 2 tickets, the purchaser will receive 1,000 bonus miles. For transactions including 3-4 tickets, the purchaser will receive 2,500 bonus miles. For transactions including 5 or more tickets, the purchaser will receive 5,000 bonus miles. To qualify, tickets must be purchased on the same itinerary.

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Mileage Pro Reviewed

by Gary Leff

Tony Mecia of the Charlotte Observer reviewed Mileage Pro yesterday. The whole world of miles and points makes Mecia’s head spin a bit. At a Christmas party last month, I joined a conversation between two friends — both frequent business travelers — who were commiserating about falling just a few nights short of qualifying for the highest level of Marriott’s elite traveler program. Each was trying to figure out how to requalify for Marriott Platinum, a program that showers perks such as room upgrades, free gifts and guaranteed rooms, even when the hotel is sold out. To qualify, travelers must stay 75 nights per year in a Marriott. They were strategizing on how to squeeze in just a few more hotel nights by the end of December to qualify. “Is it really worth it?” I…

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Details on the new USAirways Credit Card

by Gary Leff

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Jan 02 2006

The new USAirways Visa site is operational. It looks like a pretty sweet card, especially for the first year of cardmembership: 15,000 bonus miles with first purchase Up to 10,000 bonus miles for balance transfer 10,000 miles towards Preferred® status No fee for 2 years 1.5 miles per dollar spent for the first year Preferred check-in and boarding One complimentary US Airways Club® pass per year $75 off one annual US Airways Club® membership 0% introductory APR for 6 months on balance transfers No annual mileage cap Annual Certificate redeemable for two $99 Companion tickets

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New USAirways Credit Card Coming

by Gary Leff

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Jan 02 2006

I’ve written previously about USAirways dumping Bank of America in favor of Juniper Bank (over $400 million cash infusion from the new bank certainly helps with that decision). The credit card was supposed to be available January 1, but the website still shows a ‘coming in 2006’ graphic. I’m anxiously awaiting details like annual fee, signup bonus, and elite qualifying miles for reaching a spending threshold, but I do know that it will offer 1.5 miles per dollar spent for the first 12 months of cardmembership and it will give 3 miles per dollar spent with USAirways (industry standard is 2).

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WestJet to Get its own Independent Frequent Flyer Program

by Gary Leff

I just noticed that the Air Canada Aeroplan forum has a subforum for WestJet “Passenger Perks” which is odd since WestJet doesn’t have it’s own frequent flyer program. WestJet participates in AirMiles. I assume Randy Petersen knows something about what’s coming down the pike, I look forward to seeing what the program offers!

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ANA Offers Star Alliance Award Search Online

by Gary Leff

I have an Air Canada Aeroplan account with zero miles in it. I use it only for checking award availability — Air Canada lets you search awards on all of its Star Alliance partners. Then I claim the awards with United or USAirways miles. I just noticed that ANA now offers Star Alliance award searches (login required) and their tool, though a bit more complicated, also seems more powerful. I’ll be testing it today. A big thumbs up to both Air Canada and ANA for offering powerful award search tools online — as far as I can tell, well ahead of any other airlines in any global alliance.

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