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.
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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.
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.
Willie Walsh, the former head of British Airways and now head of the parent company that owns BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Veuling, apparently didn’t know that the plan for adding a third runway at London’s Heathrow airport will involve tearing down the IAG and BA headquarters.
This deal to add a $10 credit to your Amazon account will not last long. You can get $10 off your next purchase by January 14 using a MasterCard with these steps:
At United’s Investor Day last week, where they unveiled details of their new Basic Economy fares that will be more limiting than anything we’ve seen from an ultra low cost carrier like Spirit (no ability to even pay for a carry-on that must go in the overhead), they also shared that they intend to make changes to the MileagePlus program that they believe will improve their earnings.
Given the paucity of international premium cabin saver seats on American flights, combined with an inability to see award space on many partners online, I imagine there’s a reasonable number of AAnytime awards with domestic connections being booked at AA.com right now. And those members are being seated in economy for their domestic flights as a result of an American Airlines programming error. So it pays to be aware.
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