News and notes from around the interweb:
- You can load Amex Serve cards at Walmart using Visa/MasterCard gift cards.
- If you’re a US Airways elite, then today is the last day to use your miles to confirm a domestic upgrade without a co-pay.
- Judging from the traffic logs on this blog, no one uses Bing for search. So Microsoft has to pay you to. In fact Bing will let you earn frequent flyer miles for searches. You just need to give up your Google addiction. It’s not a lot of miles, but you can keep an account active..
- Save 5% – 10% off Emirates tickets and earn double miles crediting those flights to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan. (HT: @travelwithgrant)
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so now there really is no advantage to bluebird over serve… serve actaully has a higher monthly load limit. i’ll cancel my bluebird tonight and apply for serve in a month.
Well, this is interesting. According to Serve’s published fees and limits schedule (https://www.serve.com/help/#/#fees-and-limits-1), you should only be able to load up to $200/day or $1000/month from debit cards, yet Grant just showed loading 2 $500 loads in a single visit. I wonder if that was a fluke or if the published rules haven’t been updated to reflect actual changes.
@FP
i think that $200/$1k limit for debit cards is online.
I’ve been asked to turn my tshirt inside out before by TSA, I declined, nothing further happened.
Redeeming Bing rewards for miles is paying 4 cpm (not to say 4 cents per IHG point!). Would only consider this for keep-alive.
BTW, there are apps that automate daily bing queries.
I remember around 2.5 years ago, Bing used to allow earning AA miles, and I ordered that twice. Somehow they stopped it and now returned it.
Prediction: Serve and Bluebird will soon be merged, and one of the brands will be discontinued.
The Hawaiian toolbar gives 1 mile for every 3 searches, powered by Yahoo .
Looks like airline miles and hotel points option has disappeared from the Bing rewards program.