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Cathay Pacific is offering 250 AsiaMiles for completing a short survey on duty free. (This offer is currently listed on the front page of the Cathay Pacific website under Hot News.) Update 2/3/06: Survey seems to have closed and is no longer available.
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Get a free sample of Post-It Wall Stick pads. I use these in meetings at work, they’re great!
Through February 8 USAirways is offering 10,000 bonus miles for purchase of a club membership. Certainly not worth it for the miles, and I heavily object to their charging extra for access to United clubs and those of their other Star Alliance partners. But if you were going to join anyway this is a reasonable offer. Existing club members are not eligible for the bonus.
It’s part of their broadside against Southwest, they’ve titled their press release American Airlines Gets Serious About Competing at Love Field Starting March 2 through May 26, customers who fly three roundtrips between Dallas Love Field or DFW International Airport and Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin and San Antonio can earn 30,000 AAdvantage bonus miles …Fly six roundtrips in the same time period and earn an additional 30,000 bonus miles Registration is required with promo code FLY3.
Through March 31, when you sign up for Continental Airlines OnePass Dining (the free Rewards Network a.k.a. iDine program that awards miles for eating at participating restaurants) and create an online profile, you’ll get 500 Continental miles. Details can be found via Continental OnePass News and Offers using the link “Join OnePass Dining For Free By March 31, 2006 and Earn 500 Bonus Miles.” However registration is not required, so all you need to do is go to the OnePass dining site and register (if you haven’t already) and create an online profile.Members who created profiles prior to January 15 aren’t eligible for the bonus.
On Thursday I mentioned that the Starwood American Express is offering double points for tax payments. According to Free Frequent Flyer Miles the United Visa is offering double points on tax payments as well.
Northwest is offering discounted award redemption from North America to Sydney for travel between February 1 and April 30, 2006. The offer is a 20,000 mile reduction in cost for coach travel (reduced from 100,000 to 80,000 miles) and a 30,000 mile reduction for business class (reduced from 150,000 to 120,000 miles) and applies to travel on Air Tahiti Nui one-stop flights from either New York-JFK or Los Angeles via Papeete. This still is an expensive award relative to competitors. United’s regular coach award to Australia is 60,000 miles and business class is 90,000 miles — 10,000 less than the usual Northwest coach award and only 10,000 more than the discounted coach award! But for folks stuck in the Worldperks program this is a good deal, and in my experience Air Tahiti Nui offers excellent…
Yesterday I mentioned United’s offering extra bonus points for booking online. Now they’re also offering additional bonus points for both buying tickets at united.com and checking in online.
United is offering discounted coach award seats between the US and Beijing or Shanghai for just 45,000 miles. Travel must be complete by March 31. This offer can only be redeemed by phone, not online, but the standard $15 telephone booking fee is waived (good call, United).
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