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Australian Tourism Slogan Ruled Obscene
A tourism slogan for Australia’s Northern Territory has been declared obscene.
For those unfamiliar with Australia, it’s located in North Central Australia and its capital is Darwin. Crocodile Dundee‘s “Walkabout Creek” was in the Northern Territory.
Crazy Low Fare: New York, Boston, or Miami Non-stop to Spain from $350 Roundtrip ($45 Base Fares!)
You can fly non-stop to Madrid from $350 roundtrip leaving from New York, Boston, or Miami. It appears to be a $45 base fare in each direction.
Travel is on American Airlines or Iberia and will often come up as a codeshare flight using one of their joint venture airline partners British Airways or Finnair.
Earning Miles Through the Mint is Finally Dead and American Clarifies Upgrade Changes
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Marriott’s Elite Status Buyback Offer is Live (Spend Points for Elite Status)
One of my 19 tips and tricks for Marriott Rewards is that each year Marriott lets you spend points to keep your elite status. If you didn’t re-earn your elite status in 2016, you can spend points to keep that status.
But there are a couple of caveats to this.
Delta Award Sale From 5000 Miles, Hawaii Discounted Too
Delta puts a specific award on sale usually each month and this month it’s U.S. and Canada flights from 5000 miles each way for bookings made by January 13 and travel with at least 21 day advance purchase between January 24 and July 31.
The New Card I’m Looking Forward to Getting Most
This is the latest premium card, with a big signup bonus and strong points-earning. But it’s a $95 annual fee card, not a $450 annual fee card.
Delta Tried to Kick a Crying Baby Out of First Class, and Netflix for Cars
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
RUH ROH: What Are Delta’s Ground Handlers Doing When You’re Not Watching?
Two women performing ground handling work for Delta and New York JFK are suing because they were dismissed after reporting inappropriate, ahem, stuff their ‘mentor’ was doing on his own in the office.
Big Bonus Transferring Hotel Points to Cathay Pacific
Cathay Pacific’s AsiaMiles is an American Express and Citi transfer partner. They’ll also be introducing a US credit card in a few months from a bank that doesn’t issue (and therefore conflict with) other frequent flyer cards and that will have a few really interesting features. They offered this in December but it’s available again and a pretty good deal: a 30% bonus converting hotel points to miles through February 28 You don’t get the bonus instantly, instead the extra 30% will post by May 31 (or sooner). Here are the programs you can transfer in from and earn the bonus: Update: Starwood is excluded from ‘phase 2’ (January/February) for this promotion. Consider redeeming Marriott travel packages 270,000 Marriott points (which is also 90,000 Starpoints, since Starpoints transfer to Marriott at 1:3) gets you 110,500…