News and notes from around the interweb:
- Stackable promotion codes for booking hotels at a discount. These make TravelPony useful again.
- Amazing award availability using Star Alliance miles (United, Aeroplan, etc) for business class seats on Turkish Airlines and Swiss from Montreal and Toronto this coming November through January.
- The BigCrumbs cash back shopping portal is now MainStreetSHARES. Instead of straight cash back, your online shopping earns a share of company revenue, and your shares get you a piece of any payout if the company is acquired. (HT: Free Frequent Flyer Miles)
- How to protect yourself from hacks like the British Airways one.
“It’s a major cost to the programs themselves. Members are always made whole and do not lose their points once the problem is identified,” says Gary Leff, co-founder of online frequent flier discussion site MilePoint. “The best things you can do to protect your accounts are to use unique passwords … and remain vigilant. Check your accounts daily so that you notice miles disappearing quickly.”
- The average cost of room service in 15 US cities
Check your accounts daily? Yeah, right. Thanks, British Airlines!
@sharon k – one click with awardwallet.com…
@sharon k – one click with awardwallet.com…
Gary, weren’t you the one that reported that BA is suggesting that the security breach came THROUGH Award Wallet? I wonder how many people who do NOT use Award Wallet were hacked? (I don’t and I wasn’t).
@Sharon K – the BA note was ambiguous and it could be read that third party miles aggregators had nothing to do with it. I think BA is full of it on this in any case. a million accounts were affected, that wasn’t the hack of a site other than BA’s.