Through August 31, Continental is offering 500 bonus miles for booking online and paying with a Mastercard. The bonus is valid for up to 4 purchases. (Hat tip to lucky.)
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for July 2009.
Buying Coins for Miles Now Unlimited?
Frugal Travel Guy reports that the $2500 per person cap on Presidential Coin orders has been lifted. US Mint Deal is Going Wild The cap has come off the US Mint deal on the Native American coins and I’m hearing some huge numbers of coin deliveries. One reader said he and his mom are getting 20K coins per week. I know of another that has deposited over $60K in coins. Five minutes ago I just picked up the UPS box delivered with 2500 coins to meet the minimum spend on the new US Bank Flex Awards offer Katy got. That was enough for me. How are you guys moving these large numbers of coins to and from the bank? Katy and I live in small town America and have a banking relationship with our locally…
Priority Club Extends Free Night Promo Through August 15
The Priority Club stay 2 earn a free night promo which I discussed here has been extended through August 15. The promo website doesn’t say that. It was leaked in Asia but nothing online. Now folks who registered for the offer previously show it in their online accounts with the new expiration date. No need to re-register. Update: Offer extension doesn’t appear to be automatic for everyone, some folks still see an end date of the promo of July 3. And re-registering for the offer doesn’t appear to be working at the moment, either, though folks seem to be successful calling in. I imagine this should all sort itself out in a few days, the key will be to determine in your online account whether you are in fact registered for the promo with an…
If You Plan to Convert Choice Hotel Points to Southwest Rapid Rewards Credits, Do It Now!
Choice hotels is devaluing their transfers to Southwest Rapid Rewards by 25% effective July 9. 6,000 points will yield 1.5 credits instead of the current 2. So if a Rapid Rewards transfer was in your future, the future is now (or at least tomorrow). Note that Choice will only transfer up to 32 Rapid Rewards credits per day, so if you have more than 72000 Choice points to transfer you’ll need to break up it up between today and tomorrow. The overall change itself doesn’t bother me too much, I don’t ever like devaluations of course, this isn’t one I participated in. Though it was certainly of benefit to many, especially those who had transferred large numbers of Amtrak points to Choice (or even large numbers of Continental points to Amtrak to Choice). What I…
Bonus Delta and Northwest Elite Qualifying Miles for Hilton Stays
Delta and Northwest are offering bonus miles and elite qualifying miles for Hilton stays of two nights or more between July 15 and October 15. Registration is required. Delta or Northwest has to be your double dip selection as well, of course. If you choose to earn variable miles, the offer is a bonus mile and qualifying mile for every dollar spent up to a maximum of 5000 miles. If you choose to earn fixed miles, the offer is a bonus of 500 miles as well as a fixed 500 qualifying miles.
Alaska Route-specific Double Miles Promos
Alaska has some upcoming new service to Texas which they’re promoting with double miles offers, registration required for each: Service between Seattle and Austin starts August 3, and they’re offering double miles through October 15. Service between San Jose and Austin starts September 2, and they’re offering double miles through October 31. Service between Seattle and Houston starts September 23, and they’re offering double miles through November 23.
Double Miles on Delta and Northwest Through End of Year for Co-branded Amex Cardholders
Delta and Northwest are offering double miles on all flights through the end of the year for Delta Amex cardholders. Registration is required no later than September 30. There’s no limit to the bonus, and you don’t have to buy your tickets with the card. Travel date is what’s relevant, the bonus applies to tickets purchased earlier in the year provided that you register and travel during the July 1 through December 31 promotion period. (Hat tip to One Mile at a Time.)
Citi’s Thank You Rewards is Only the Most Recent in a Long String of Proprietary Points Program Devaluations
Reader Phil passes along by email a nice retrospective on some of the ‘loopholes’ that proprietary rewards progreams (earn points in their non-airline program, they buy you tickets on airlines) have offered in the past. The touchstone of course is the devaluation of the Thank You Network program, which used to buy you a ticket between two cities with no cap in price, folks would buy exraordinarily expensive tickets and cancel the itineraries, using credits towards other travel. Then Citi realized this wasn’t profitable for hem, they offered a fixed point redemption chart that capped the value of a ticket, for business class redemptions it was 3 cents per point. People did the same thing, on a less grand scale. This too came to end — it was announced to stop at the end of…
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