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Up to 7000 Miles for New Northwest Worldperks Members

by Gary Leff on October 22, 2006

Oct 22 2006

Through December 31, Northwest is offering new members enrolling in Worldperks up to 7000 miles: Earn 1,000 Bonus Miles: complete your first flight (one-way or roundtrip) Earn 5,000 Bonus Miles: complete a second flight (roundtrip only) Earn 1,000 Bonus Miles: subscribe to NWA E-mail for two consecutive months. Flights must be completed within six months of enrolling to earn the bonuses, and the offer is available to accounts with North American addresses only. (Hat tip to Flyertalk’s slippahs.)

$219+ tax each way for FULL FARE tickets Minneapolis to London-Gatwick

by Gary Leff on October 21, 2006

Oct 21 2006

This is available on Continental.com, Expedia, etc. The fare basis is Y3E and is a mileage-based fare rather than routing-based. You’re permitted 4813 miles each way without surcharges. Full fare tickets are refundable, upgradable, and earn 150% of flown miles. This has been out for at least 10 hours but still appears to be going strong. Update 11:15am Eastern: Still available. Here’s the Flyertalk discussion. Really great fare. Update 7:05pm Eastern: This fare is still available. Turns out it was filed on October 17th. Didn’t get posted on Flyertalk till the weekend and no one seems to be minding the store. Sure, it prices out around $600 with taxes — but it’s a full fare refundable ticket that’s upgradable and earns bonus miles and bonus qualifying miles. This could give someone Platinum status on a…

Las Vegas – Caesars Palace – $20/night

by Gary Leff on October 17, 2006

Priceline has Caesars Palace at $20. I assume it was intended to be $200. This is not their ‘name your own price’ product — when you go to Priceline.com and search for Las Vegas hotels the system first brings up a conventional booking engine. Look uder four star properties in the “Strip – Fremont Area” and you’ll see Caesars Palace at $20. It’s prepaid, but you can cancel for a refund minus $25 fee. If you don’t see the rate for the date(s) you’re looking for try different dates, the ‘priceline special rate’ may be sold out. Being discussed on Flyertalk.

5000 Northwest Bonus Miles for Next Roundtrip

by Gary Leff on October 14, 2006

Oct 14 2006

Discounted Award Flights to Tokyo

by Gary Leff on September 23, 2006

Sep 23 2006

Award travel on United’s new Washington Dulles-Tokyo flight is only 45,000 Mileage Plus miles in coach between October 28, 2006 and March 31, 2007. You can start from other cities, but need to connect to and from the Dulles flight. (That tip to Flyertalk member Boazs.)

1000 Continental Miles for Creating Dining Login

by Gary Leff on September 21, 2006

Sep 21 2006

From Free Frequent Flyer Miles: Continental Airlines OnePass members who have not created a OnePass Dining Login ID can earn 1,000 bonus miles for doing so here October 1 – December 31, 2006. It appears that you don’t actually have to dine to get the miles

Five Nights at a Priority Club Hotel Yields 10,000 Miles

by Gary Leff on September 20, 2006

Sep 20 2006

If you stay 5 consecutive nights at am InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Hotel Indigo, Holiday Inn, or Holiday Inn Express in the U.S, Canada or Mexico for 5 consecutive nights or more through December 31, 2006 you can earn 10,000 bonus Delta miles.Not bad. Registration is required and you have to select Delta miles as your earning preference in your Priority Club profile.

250 Free Delta Miles

by Gary Leff on September 16, 2006

Sep 16 2006

Via Free Frequent Flyer Miles, Delta is offering 250 free miles for answering a one question survey.