Monthly Archives for July 2015.
You get 750 United miles just for signing up for Mypoints, the online shopping portal.
If you make a purchase of $25 or more at an online retailer through the shopping portal within 30 days you get another 1000 United miles on top.
Points appear to post in about a week, despite the offer promising 6 to 8 weeks.
United is offering a 72 hour flash sale (though July 30) on purchased miles.
You’ll have to provide your account number and password to reveal your offer. Some folks are receiving a 50% bonus on points purchased. I was offered a 35% discount. Both work out to the same cost per miles.
American Express Plenti – the coalition rewards program that gives you points for transactions with a variety of merchants like AT&T, ExxonMobil, RiteAid, and more now has a new competitor Earn by Microsoft.
So far their partners are in different spaces. Here are the initial places you can earn via Microsoft’s new program:
New York LaGuardia’s biggest problem is congestion. They could use more takeoff and landing space for sure but primarily it’s New York airspace that’s the issue. Without fixing air traffic control, there’s little that can be done to the physical plant that will truly solve problems.
LaGuardia has been slated to get a new Central Terminal in 2021 and I never believed the timeline.
Now, instead, Vice President Biden and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo today announced a whole new plan for the airport instead.
Delta is going to roll out a new offering that will allow elite customers to ‘buy up’ to private jet travel.
American just brought the Boeing 787 into service.
That feeling when you get a new car, it even still smells new, and a rock hits the windshield.. or you spill something on the seats. Or maybe it’s a brand new couch that you stain.
I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Against a backdrop of airlines handling mistake fares badly — cancelling tickets after months rather than hours — the DOT issued rules in 2012 that explicitly required airlines to honor mistake fares.
That’s because DOT prohibited ‘post purchase price increases’ of any kind — cancelling a ticket and requiring that a consumer buy a new ticket at then-prevalent rates would constitute raising the price of travel for that consumer after they had made a purchase.
TSA bomb sniffing dogs that have retired — and those who wash out of the program — can be adopted for free.
Just a month ago pilots were fired when a voluptuous model flirted in the cockpit throughout a commercial flight and took a video of it.
And that wasn’t even the first time something like that happened within a matter of months.
You’d think that the memories would be fresh enough that other pilots wouldn’t do the same thing, at least for another few months. You would be wrong.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
