Kelloggs is giving away 25,000 American Airlines miles a day from April 7 through June 5. You can enter once per day.
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Earn Double Miles with the Delta Amex
If you have a Delta American Express, you need to enroll to earn double miles on all purchases from May 15 through July 15 (maximum 20,000 bonus miles).
Restaurants on the cheap
I’m finding Restaurants.com gift certificates available on Ebay for 70% or more off of their face value. I recently picked up a $50 gift certificate for Gerard’s Place here in D.C. for only a $1. Of course, that pretty much only buys me lunch — but I’m on the prowl for another Gerard’s Place gift certificate of a similar denomination. Choose browse, choose Gifts & Occasions, then choose Gift Certificates. Within Gift Certificates, search just for the city you’re looking for (e.g. Washington DC). Just be sure that the terms of the gift certificate work for you. All of them are different. Some require parties of 2 or more. Others require parties of 4. Some are lunch only and others are dinner only.
Singapore Air Miles
Get 1000 free Singapore Air miles for signing up to receive electronic statements by April 30th.
What Can I Do For You?
Please feel free to add a comment in this thread or drop me a line with your thoughts on: What I do to make this site better? What you’d like to see me write more about? What I can do to get you to link to this site from your own website? (And I’m asking, by the way 🙂 Basically, I want to improve this website, make it more useful for my readers, and attract new readers. For that I want your help. Thanks!
50% Off Hotels in Hawaii
Rack rates (“full asking price”) for hotel rooms often prevail in Hawaii. Starwood is offering 50% off coupons for 13 Hawaiian properties. Just click on the link above and e-mail yourself a coupon. Update: Coupon terms and conditions say you need to be a United Airlines elite member (Premier, Premier Executive, 1K) in order to use this certificate. My best guess is that you won’t be required to show proof of United elite status. A simple “I forgot my card” should suffice even if you’re asked. But your mileage may vary.
Honoring and Dishonoring Onepass Members
Continental identifies its most frequent travelers in a variety of categories, and a thread on Flyertalk skewers these people.
USAirways CEO interviewed
In today’s Washington Post, USAirways’ CEO outlines steps for emerging from bankruptcy, criticizes airlines’ attempts to build low cost carrier subsidiaries (including the efforts of his airline’s partner, United), and dismisses Congressional proposals to limit airline executive pay — while foolishly arguing that Congress should target individual executives instead. His steps for emerging from bankrupty are feel good truisms. His criticism of low cost carriers are probably right on, but the piece doesn’t develop them. And while he meanders to the right conclusion that Congress shouldn’t butt into CEO pay (presumably purely out of his own self-interest), it’s surely a bizarre suggestion that Congress should get in the middle of specific pay packages. American law doesn’t look too kindly on bills of attainder. And if the arguments are valid against regulating pay packages writ large,…
I could do a whole lot of travel with $189 million
One of the things that I do in my ‘real life’ is help individuals with a charitable purpose minimize their tax burden. Most folks just make gifts of appreciated stock, which provides the double benefit of a tax deduction for the gift value and avoidance of the ccapital gains tax on the appreciation of the asset. But there are all sorts of things that people can do, including transferring assets to limited partnerships whose shares have less value than their underlying assets because they carry no voting rights (although after the general partner’s death, presumably those voting rights transfer). This is an interesting way that many folks minimize their estate’s value for taxation purposes. Similarly, some people gift a percentage interest in their home each year while maintaining the right to live in that home…
What’s bad for the airlines is good for the country?
Lynn Kiesling explains that revenue declines for the airline industry are good for consumars and the economy. If she’s right, we’d be wise to ignore the industry’s pleas for subsidies.
