Monthly Archives for April 2016.
Whether or not you think Donald Trump should be President, he did up his qualifications on Wednesday night by staying at a Holiday Inn Express.
Trump, it turns out, has a thing for reviewing Holiday Inn Express properties.
I live in US Central time. My job is on the East Coast.
I keep my computer set to Central time, it’s that way all the time when I travel except… When I go to DC for work, when I’m in the office, I reset my computer to Eastern time.
A couple of years ago government taxes ostensibly for security were increased from $2.50 each way not to exceed $5 per roundtrip to $5.60 each way.
The $2.50 per direction fee had been constant since the February 2002, until it went up in 2014, though revenue has consistently grown. The Obama administration is proposing to raise the fee from $5.60 per direction to…
Korean Air has the easiest first class award availability in the world. It’s the most generous program if you want to redeem first class awards for a family and not just for two passengers.
They have great partner awards — 80,000 miles in business class to Europe and cheap Hawaii awards to. And they have some of the lowest fees and most generous award hold policies of any airline.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Dining for miles is one of the easy and free ways you can rack up points. Register, use your credit card when you dine out, and if it happens to be at a participating restaurant you’ll earn miles automatically.
Through July 1 you can receive instant VIP status just for registering to earn United miles for your dines. That means you earn at a higher rate, 5 miles per dollar spent. And you also earn up to 5000 bonus miles on your first dines.
A week ago I shared Donald Trump’s failure to keep the registration up to date on his Cessna.
Now the plane is back in the air thanks to some sleight of hand: Donald Trump sold the plane to himself.
I spent a few minutes listening to Delta SkyMiles Karen Zachary this morning recapping the program’s first year having moved to revenue-based earning for flights.
She pitches is as a resounding success, and of course Delta is successful overall relative to its peers. Delta has been successful relative to its peers prior to the change. And they had long viewed the SkyMiles program as the weak spot at the airline internally, or so Delta executives had told me.
Her overarching claim is that the program now awards high spenders more but also provides more value for everyone.
The TSA considered ending security screening at some of the smallest airports but lawmakers killed the idea.
No one is going to bother wasting a terrorist act on a 19 seat plane out of a market with zero media. And a hijacked 30 seat plane isn’t the same risk to infrastructure that a Boeing 757 is.
Virgin America has increased elite bonus points-earning. Silvers will now earn a 50% bonus (up from 25%) on points earned through spending on tickets. Golds will now earn a 140% bonus (up from 100%) on points earned through spending on tickets.
Most interesting to me is that award redemption flights will now count towards elite status.
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 »
