Perhaps because of how much BA awards cost they’re also usually pretty available. And they have released space pretty reliably when the flight schedule opens.
However first class awards between North America and London seem to disappear completely in 2019.
U.S. Travel Association Daily Getaways — discounted travel deals — will return April 9 through May 9. They’re touting that they’ll offer “the most loyalty program points for sale in Daily Getaways’ nine-year history.”
The best deals go very quickly, within seconds, and the less appealing ones tend to stay around awhile.
From August through October there was a 50,000 mile signup bonus offer for the Cathay Pacific Visa. That’s double the previous offer.
Through June 30 they’re offering an initial bonus up to 60,000 miles.
On a Thursday Minneapolis – San Jose flight on Delta two passengers became sick and threw up. And that caused five other passengers around them to throw up, too. Passengers reported the flight was so bumpy it felt like a boat.
That was just the start.
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On a March 22nd British Airways London – Barcelona flight a man was accused by another passenger of stealing an iPhone.
The man was searched on the flight. He showed what was in his pockets. He didn’t have the iPhone.
EU regulation 261 (2004) requires airlines to compensate passengers between €250 and €600 cash for flight delays of over 3 hours, for cancellations, and for involuntary denied boardings due to overbooking. The amount depends on the distance of the flight.
This applies to flight departures from EU countries, and it applies to flights headed to the EU on airlines based there. It also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. And it applies to award tickets not just paid tickets.
Hilton is making changes to its airline partnerships effective tomorrow April 2. They are dropping a bunch of airlines (you’ll no longer be able to transfer points to these airlines), adding some, and changing the transfer ratio for a couple.
I reached out to Delta and they confirmed that this is “No[t a] glitch on the award pricing” so we can apparently rely on it, until it changes again.
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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 »
