A freedom of information act request unearthed a copy of a receipt for a government official’s two night stay at President Trump’s private club Mar-a-lago, sometimes referred to as the ‘Winter White House’ where Trump traveled seven times since his inauguration.
Any time American Airlines makes international business class saver award space available that’s notable, since it’s both rare and short-lived when it does occur.
From February 27 through June 24 there’s good business class award space available on American’s New York JFK – Rio de Janeiro service in both directions. Miami – Sao Paulo also has good space for 2 passengers in business class through March and April, becomes Thursdays only in May, and has decent availability again for June.
A reportedly drunk man was singing loudly on a Ryanair flight from Girona to London Luton.
A flight attendant told him that if he didn’t quiet down she’d call the police. The flight landed at 11 p.m. and indeed police were called.
If you don’t spend more than you otherwise would and pay off your bill in full on time each month credit cards are better than debit cards, cash and other methods of payment.
If you don’t meet either of those conditions then tools that free you wind up used irresponsibly so for many it’s wise to adopt forms of payment which are binding constraints on the ability to get into financial trouble.
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The hurricane was bad enough. The stories of the people — from the looters, to those banding together to survive — will soon become a movie of the week.
Thirty nine year old Darren Stanway and his new spouse 34 year old Nadia reportedly took a 17 mile taxi ride to Manchester airport in the UK during which they consumed 3 bottles of wine.
With airberlin disappearing faster than a pack of smokes at an AA meeting, oneworld partner Finnair is swooping in to pick up their customers. And while they’re at it they’re looking for Star Alliance member Lufthansa’s customers as well.
Oh my goodness United. Sure the people who assist passengers in wheelchairs are contract workers but you bumped the woman from a flight, you see she’s in a wheel chair, and no one bothers to help her. Even when she’s sitting at the gate for 12 hours because she cannot move herself. Of course this happened at Newark.
In theory a revenue-based program shouldn’t need to devalue. More expensive tickets automatically cost more points. As ticket prices rise so do award prices. And the scarcest seats already cost more in Southwest’s system not just because of their higher cash price but because the value per point redeeming for those points is reduced. Yet they’ve devalued multiple times anyway.
Could we be seeing an increase in the value of points?
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 »
