Earn $15 in Gift Cards For Each Restaurant Reservation

Sep 21 2017

A huge challenge for businesses with high fixed costs is how to unload spoiling inventory without lowering the price existing customers pay. Airline seats that take off empty generate nothing for the carrier. Hotel beds that go empty on a given night can’t be resold in the future.

Restaurants have empty seats, too the rent is paid for and there’s very little extra staff time at the margin on a given night when an extra customer walks through the door.

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LifeMiles Has a New Online Award Search — and Lets You Pick Cabins Flight-By-Flight

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Sep 21 2017

Avianca’s LifeMiles is a fantastic frequent flyer program because they give you access to Star Alliance award travel, they don’t add fuel surcharges to any awards, have a reasonable award chart and sell miles super cheap.

In fact the head of the program has described the miles they sell as ‘good miles’ and the miles earned from flying as ‘bad miles’.

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United’s New Safety Video is Here!

Sep 20 2017

There are easter eggs here, like as others have noted the Boeing 787 mother and her 737 child. Sadly despite the impending 747 retirement the Queen of the Skies made no appearance as Pa.

Oscar Munoz says thank you in Spanish. Some will see that as political but United’s global themed safety videos predate the election.

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