Category Archives for Discounts & Deals.
I posted on April 1 that Delta reduced the price of partner awards to Asia. And it wasn’t even April Fools’ Day. In fact I asked Delta and they confirmed this was not a mistake. Now it appears that they’ve lowered the price of partner awards to Europe, too.
Delta is running an award redemption flash sale to Hawaii.
They’re advertising it as ‘from’ 35,000 miles roundtrip in economy, but that’s very limited routes like Seattle – Lihue, and in many ways this sale just underscores how bad a deal regular SkyMiles is. Here’s how to do Hawaii better.
There are currently four open ‘Minute Suites’ airport locations in the U.S.: two at Dallas Fort-Worth, one in Atlanta, and one in Philadelphia.
A second Atlanta location opens soon. But the real news is that a Minute Suites in Charlotte opens this month.
Southwest appears to be offering double points on all flights through June 13. Registration is required.
United is back with this sale, creating a sense of urgency promoting the offer as ‘one day only’. It’s cheaper than usual, though I think we can expect that this pricing will be back at some point later in the year.
Buying between 50,000 and 75,000 miles generates a 100% bonus. Here’s the cost to buy 150,000 miles. It comes to 1.88 cents per mile.
U.S. Travel Association Daily Getaways — discounted travel deals — will return April 9 through May 9. They’re touting that they’ll offer “the most loyalty program points for sale in Daily Getaways’ nine-year history.”
The best deals go very quickly, within seconds, and the less appealing ones tend to stay around awhile.
Qatar has the best business class product in the world in its new ‘QSuites’. To be sure even their older Airbus A350 business class is very good, a B/E Aerospace Super Diamond seat and a phenomenal soft product. But QSuites are revolutionary suites with doors and moveable partitions that allow two and even four passengers to travel together in their own space.
Currently they fly the product to New York JFK, Washington Dulles, and starting Saturday to Chicago.
Hilton doesn’t have blackout dates or capacity controls. When a standard room is available for sale, it should be available on points. That’s true of many hotel programs.
However individual hotels will sometimes playg games with their revenue inventory. They aren’t supposed to do this, but they may view guests on points as worth less than what they might get on the market from a paying customer.
Delta wants to incentivize you to earn their currency with more of their partners. They get paid by those partners for their miles.
But they want to be careful not to be too generous and give you extra miles for the things you’d do already. So they have a new promotion that’s double miles through May 31 for partner activity you didn’t earn SkyMiles for in 2017.
There’s no limit on the number of cash and points redemptions that you can use this with, and if you’re an IHG cardholder you’ll still also receive the 10% rebate on the points portion of the reservation up to your annual maximum.
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 »
