There’s an amazing $266 roundtrip fare right now for September and October travel between New York (JFK) and Turin, Italy.
That’s really all-in, including taxes. And it’s on Meridiana, the Italian airline that’s 49% owned by Qatar Airways. Who needs 5th freedom flights, the kind that Qatar says they aren’t currently interested in operating (between Europe and the US even though they’re based in the Mideast) when they can charge $266 through their Italian proxy?
Every Valentine’s Day shopping portal offers get pretty big for Valentine’s-related gifts like flowers. It’s been true almost forever.
The usual ‘big boost’ is earning 30 miles per dollar, which is a pretty good rebate for miles often worth about 1.5 cents apiece (a 45% rebate on the base price of flowers, but not really that big when you factor shipping which doesn’t earn miles).
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Maldives President Abdulla Yameen was elected in 2013, and is a member of the Maldivian Democratic Party. His half brother Maumoon Gayoom ruled the country prior to the nation’s first democratic elections in 2008.
The country’s first elected President Mohamed Nasheed was forced to resign in what amounted to a coup in 2012. The new government, representing interests fro the old regime, had him tried and convicted on terrorism charges.
The nation’s Supreme Court threw out those charges last week. The court also ordered the release of other opposition lawmakers who were being held.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence was onboard Delta flight 1975 from New Orleans to Los Angeles yesterday when she took over the intercom, declared herself ‘not the pilot speaking’ and then tried and failed to lead the plane in a chant for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Earlier today I wrote that Marriott would be bringing back tweeting for points tonight.
Instead of one question with many hours to answer as in the past there’s 1500 points on the table with more than one question. Well here’s the first one, Marriott will give you 500 points for answering a simple question on Twitter.
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American’s new ‘Tell Me Why’ podcast is live with its third episode. While it’s geared towards employees and posted to their internet Jetnet system it’s also available on iTunes.
For the third episode Vice President of Communications Ron DeFeo interviews Kurt Stache, American’s head of marketing who used to run AAdvantage, about the airline’s inflight product and mostly inflight entertainment.
Each Sunday in the back part of 2017 Marriott would offer a trivia question to answer on Twitter each Sunday, and a correct answer would be good for 1000 points.
These were NFL football-related so it’s not surprising to see free Twitter points back today because Superbowl.
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