News and notes from around the interweb:
- A new place to buy Vanilla Reloads cards, and possibly even earn double points while doing so.
- The Southwest Visa 50,000 point signup bonus offer (offer expired) that I wrote about this past week now has a known expiration date of August 6.
- Somalia’s somewhat friendly skies. Another fascinating example of relative (and relatively increasing) prosperity in the country with no functional government.
- The new head of Dallas Fort Worth airport once boarded the wrong plane there as a child. (HT: Carter H.) He continued making similar mistakes throughout his career, such as running United’s short-lived low cost carrier Ted. Terry Maxon suggests his experience at United means that the Virgin Australia COO already has experience running a non-profit..
- Fly New York to Guayaquil, Ecaudor for $365 roundtrip all-in on American.
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It would be great to be able to get 5x for VRs at gas stations this quarter with Freedom. We have 3 Freedoms and would love to max them out.
Is the 711w/Gas activity limited to 1 VR per transaction or was that an one time glitch and doing 2 VRs at a time is allowed? Anyone? Been busy lately:-)
@TravelBloggerBuzz, this seemed like a limit built into their system given what the prompts were saying.
Holy cow, that fare is good to the Galapagos too! And its only $588 from LAX to GPS!
Not a fan of you posting the 7-11 link. Just killed it for us.
Go Darwin, go!
@Frank – people like you give way too much credit to the bloggers and way too little credit to the bazillion dollar companies. These companies know EXACTLY what they are doing and how it will be utilized. I have been told by representatives of companies much much smaller than 7-eleven or the CC companies that they monitor FT daily. To believe that these huge companies will really be in the dark and we are pulling a fast one until a blogger mentions the deal is naïve.
Secondly, 7-eleven has ALWAYS been a retailer of VR according to the VR website. Its just that usually the cards werent available or it was cash only. So this shift now shows that 7-eleven has seen an added business value of some sort in opening up this as a revenue source. So i doubt they are likely to just reverse that decision when people start taking them up on it. The pressure could come from the CC company side for sure. All parties involved will continue to monitor and run the numbers and when it stops being attractive the deal will die that day. But dont pretend that these guys dont know what is up.
I put this news in a bits ‘n pieces post, merely linking to someone that had already blogged it. On a Saturday morning no less. It got very few comments. And I didn’t even name the convenience store, therefore no Google Alerts to anyone. But the notion that this deal belongs to a few people is anachronistic at best.
I’m curious as to how you found out about this flytheory blog considering it literally has no content except for that one post. Did they send you a link to it? Seems very strange.