Bits ‘n Pieces for February 7, 2012

by Gary Leff

  • Via Dan’s Deals, you can get a free 26 week subscription to the Wall Street Journal and also to Barron’s.

  • Via the Points Guy you can get 3000 free Avios points if you log into your account and search for Realtytrac in the top right search bar, then sign up for a free 7 day trial. You’ll need to call (877-888-8722, 8am – 5pm Pacific) in order to cancel within those 7 days to avoid being charged for the service.

  • Matthew points out that Continental.com has now added all Star Alliance partners to their website for award booking except Ethiopian Airlines. Continental.com is the easiest site to use for searching for award seats in my opinion, you don’t even have to log in to search flights. And if the miles aren’t in your Continental account you can hold an award, and then transfer miles over from United in real-time, then go back and issue tickets. Thank goodness this will be the surviving platform, although note that sometime the website will misprice awards especially when searching multi-city, you may need to call for the right pricing so be vigilant!

  • Richard Quest says “Never board a plane or a train, or rest your weary head on a pillow, or spend a dollar, euro or shekel on any credit card, without making sure a mile is being earned along the way.”

About Gary Leff

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 »

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Comments

  3. Thanks for pointing out that CO now beats out the ANA tool. In fact, CO sees some flights that ANA doesn’t — I was looking up inventory on Air China from PEK-ULN (don’t ask). The ANA tool wouldn’t recognize it, but CO did. Wow, it does return a lot of options.

  4. Yeah it doesn’t seem that the link to Brian’s blog is right either. And I tried to run the search on Realtytrac and got nothing.

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