Monthly Archives

Jun 25 2016

Usually we see the best airfare deals when one airline attacks another airline’s hub cities with cheap deals. For instance United might offer great fares from American cities like Dallas and Charlotte and Delta cities like Atlanta and Detroit.

You don’t usually see an airline offering the cheapest fares from its own hub cities. That’s because they are usually thought to have pricing power there — the best schedules with the fewest connections that people will pay more for.

Right now though United appears to be offering amazing cheap fares to Southeast Asia from its own hub cities.

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Jun 25 2016

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.

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Jun 24 2016

At the beginning of November I suggested that an American Express Centurion lounge would be coming to LAX.

The big hint was American Express Centurion Lounge-branded couches past security in the Tom Bradley international terminal.

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Jun 24 2016

Since signing up for Global Entry three years ago I haven’t missed getting PreCheck a single time that I was eligible for it.

I often hear about flyers with ‘Known Traveler Numbers’ not getting PreCheck. American Airlines has a new measure to make darned sure that passengers entitled to PreCheck get PreCheck.

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Jun 24 2016

You can imagine my excitement at the new JetBlue Pointmatch promotion.

JetBlue will match whatever balance is in your Virgin America Elevate account by July 4 (up to 50,001 points but and in some cases matched better than 1:1) if you take a single roundtrip with them by August 31.

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Jun 24 2016

United and Continental merged in 2010, with Continental management eventually taking over, but six years later that merger is still not complete. Flight crews have been known to still announce that a given aircraft is operated by Continental.

This morning, finally, the negotiating committee for the flight attendants came to terms with United on a new joint contract.

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Jun 24 2016

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.

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Jun 24 2016

The UK has voted to exit the European Union. There’s tremendous gnashing of teeth over what this means for the world and those are very real concerns. There are also concerns within the travel industry, and amongst travelers.

Nothing has actually changed today and while there was much campaigning in favor of British self-determination and against Brussels, as well as against immigration, it’s not yet clear how (or that) UK policy will differ from the status quo going forward.

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Jun 23 2016

There’s virtually no competition for redeeming first class awards on SkyTeam member Garuda Indonesia. Delta miles, of course, cannot be used for international first class. Citi ThankYou Rewards transfer directly to the GarudaMiles program.

The problem is the byzantine redemption process for GarudaMiles awards. It’s “award redemption in six easy steps.”

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Jun 23 2016

Today Air Serbia launches its new New York JFK – Belgrade non-stop with an Airbus A330 they’ve named for Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla.

A reader will win 2 business class roundtrip tickets for this new flight. Entering is easy.

Here’s also what you can do while you’re visiting — and how we’ll you’re positioned to spend time throughout the region on your trip.

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