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American Express offered a 25% bonus on transfers of Membership Rewards points to Alitalia Millemiglia in October.
Now through December 31 they’re offering a 40% bonus on transfers.
Turkish Airlines is offering 40% off all economy and business class tickets booked today for travel from the U.S. through April 15. There are even times where 8 or more business and economy award seats are available as well!
All destinations except Turkey and Northern Cyprus (which Turkey claims as its own) are on sale at 40% off.
Through Monday night American is offering an additional 20% on purchased miles — on top of the mileage purchase bonus they’re already running. Maxing out the bonus means buying 270,000 miles for $4786.88, or 1.77 cents apiece.
Idaho Senator Larry Craig was once arrested in a Minneapolis St. Paul airport restroom for having too wide a stance.
Senator Larry Craig’s incident is now memorialized with… an award for America’s best bathroom.
For travel throughout most of 2017 you can fly Singapore Airlines between Los Angeles and Tokyo for less than $500 roundtrip. In fact, the fare is really available, it’s not hard to find.
What makes this fare really interesting to me is that Singapore Airlines economy is pretty darned civilized as far as economy long haul travel goes. I personally wouldn’t want to contemplate China Eastern or United economy for that long a trip.
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.
The British Airways Concorde Room is kind of a pit, at least as far as first class lounges in Europe or Asia go.
However they’ve finally done something interesting: the Concorde Room now has its own gin.
LoungeBuddy is selling lounge passes 20% off if you purchase by 11:59pm Central time on Friday.
I haven’t ever purchased a lounge pass through them, I get my lounge access from credit cards mostly. However one reason I’m passing this along is because they have a unique set of lounges not covered by other programs in many cases.
If you join Fairmont Presidents Club — it’s free and quick to do — you’ll get 1000 Air Canada Aeroplan miles. You’ll use embedded enrollment code ame16 and you must join by January 15 to get the miles.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
