SECRET ROUTE: American AAdvantage Business Class Award Space to Europe for 4 Passengers With No Fuel Surcharges!!

by Gary Leff

Feb 03 2017

American is tight-fisted with award availability on its own flights. Getting to Europe with American miles is tough without coming out of pocket big money paying British Airways extortionate fuel surcharges. The other usual options are Iberia (pretty good business class availability for 2 passengers booked a year out most of the time) and air berlin (with the hope that the airline is still around by the time you travel).

However there’s another route that almost no one thinks about, because it’s flying an airline that’s a partner but not a member of oneworld and availability isn’t shown on the AA.com website.

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Can Hyatt Platinums Give Themselves a Status Upgrade in March?

by Gary Leff

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Feb 02 2017

Earlier today I wrote about the Hyatt-MGM status match. Since MGM lets you give your status to someone you live with at the same address, you should be able to match your status to MGM, give MGM status to a spouse, and then have them match their MGM status to Hyatt.

But what if everyone that’s a Platinum today could use this to give themselves Explorist status in March?

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Border Security Officer Arrested With 12 Kilos of Cocaine

by Gary Leff

Feb 02 2017

Flight attendants and aircraft make great mules. They’re traveling from one country to another and if you have access to them they may get less scrutiny entering a foreign country.

But if a passenger is going to be the mule, they’re the dumbest drug runner in history if the plan is to get off the plane and leave their stuff in the restroom for someone else to pick up. It helps a little bit if the someone else is a border officer.

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