I write about credit card trip delay coverage — how your credit card used to purchase tickets may cover the costs you incur during a long delay, like the price you pay for a hotel room and your meals too.
This really needs to be shouted from the rooftops since travel does get messed up, people do incur costs, and most get frustrated and leave real money on the table.
Both Hilton and Marriott are out with their promotions for next month through the end of the year. Hilton is offering a chain-wide double and triple points depending on the day of the week, and Marriott is offering “MegaBonus” bonus points with different targeted offers for different members.
Two weeks ago I wrote about Plastiq and their limited-time offer to charge just 1.99% when you pay bills through their service with a MasterCard or American Express.
Plastiq’s new promotion is no fee to pay your utilities with a MasterCard when you schedule 6 or more payments up front.
Delta had a major glitch where you couldn’t see any award availability on partner airlines on their website when searching one way. They’ve fixed that. But they’ve also done something much better.
They used to black out Korean Air award redemption for nearly one third of the year. They just updated their terms and conditions to fix that, breaking out the different regions of the world which are supposed to have different ‘high demand dates’ in Korean’s program. Now you can use your miles for travel on Korean Air much more freely!
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Prince William flew Ryanair about 6 weeks ago.
He’s no stranger to ‘common’ flight experiences, having flown American coach from Memphis to Dallas last year.
If it’s good enough for the royals, then it’s good enough for UK Prime Minister David Cameron as well. He was caught eating Pringles and working on his ipad on an Easyjet flight to Portugal.
Now that Americans are traveling to Cuba again and the US embassy in Havana has re-opened, the Obama administration is looking to allow scheduled air service between the US and Cuba (rather than just charter flights) by the end of the year. A key stumbling block is allowing Cuba’s state airline Cubana de Aviación to fly to the US.
There are several reasons to think these flights will be big money losers.
Watch this first. All the way through. The amazing thing isn’t even the opening landing in the video.
Delta’s “basic economy fares” and their upsell offers are coming under heavy criticism.
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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 »
