New Capital One 33.3% Bonus Transferring Miles to Qantas

by Gary Leff

syndeyhouse
Sep 15 2019

Capital One® Venture® Rewards Credit Card and Capital One® Spark® Miles for Business cardholders gained the ability to transfer to airline frequent flyer miles late last year. Now they’re launching their 5th transfer bonus of the year: a one-third (33.3%) bonus on transfers to Qantas.

Qantas is useful for inexpensive short distance awards on oneworld airlines, and for redemptions on partners like El Al and Emirates – and they don’t charge miles or a fare for infant travel on awards.

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Marriott Peak Award Pricing is Live, But Some Hotels May Offer Lower Award Rates for a Few Hours

by Gary Leff

new york street
Sep 14 2019

Marriott tells me though that “it may take a few hours to fully update our servers” so there may still be hotels not yet showing peak pricing. And it’s still possible to book awards at those properties as they roll out the changes. I’m not saying to go look for a needle in a haystack, but some glitches and delays in raising prices may be out there.

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How the $600 Per Year British Airways Visa Award Travel Statement Credit Works

by Gary Leff

airplane cabin
Sep 14 2019

This was the first airline card I know of to ever offer a 100,000 point initial bonus offer, and there’s currently an offer to earn up to 100,000 Avios.

The card now comes with up to $600 back each year when you redeem awards. It offers a statement credit for taxes and fees when redeeming British Airways Avios for BA transatlantic flights originating in the U.S.

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New American Airlines Tool Will Auto-Cancel ‘Backup Flights’ In Your Reservation

by Gary Leff

plane from a 45 degree angle
Sep 14 2019

American is making it harder once again to deal with irregular operations despite a long hot summer of cancelled flights and displaced passengers.

American has a new system set up to cancel extra backup segments in an itinerary. If agents add extra segments to give you options when things go bad those segments will be removed automatically.

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Review: Flying Air Tanzania’s Airbus A220 From Lusaka to Dar es Salaam

by Gary Leff

Sep 14 2019

Five years ago reader Doug Hess shared his experience flying African low cost carrier: Fly540. Since this was something I haven’t done, but I enjoyed hearing about it, I asked if he wouldn’t mind briefly writing up the experience so that I could pass it along.

Now Doug is back with his experience flying an Air Tanzania Airbus A220 from Lusaka, Zambia to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Oh yes, and he did redeem points for the flight.

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