By combining Starwood’s generous points to miles transfer bonus, a short-term bonus for transferring points from the airline, and a sweet spot in an award chart you can get two roundtrip business class award trips for just 120,000 Starwood Starpoints and even have 10,000 miles left in your account when you’re done!
If you set the combination of your frequent flyer accounts to 1-2-3-4-5 (or your luggage), that’s not secure and anyone can guess it.
Delta and United now award miles for flights based on the cost of a ticket instead of distance flown.
Though the airlines would have you believe that ‘on average’ they’re awarding the same amount of miles under the new program as the old, and just redistributing those miles — more miles to big spenders, and fewer miles for less expensive tickets — that’s not really true, as a look a second quarter operational results demonstrates.
Amidst revelations that the TSA misses bombs and weapons about 95% of the time, I predicted (and feared) this would mean a crackdown at the checkpint.
And indeed the new head of the TSA declared they needed to become less efficient. Now the TSA is planning its overhaul.
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There’s no more ‘instant Diamond’ status offer, you actually have to stay 12 nights within 60 days for Diamond. But you don’t even need to have status with another chain to sign up, you just need to ask for the challenge.
However, Hyatt let me know this morning that registration for their Elite Tier Offer will close on July 31. If you’re considering the Hyatt Diamond challenge, you need to request it before the end of the business week. It’s going to come back, but they haven’t said when.
Christopher Elliott wrote this morning “Yes, I called credit cards a scam — wanna make something of it?”
Why yes – yes I do.
Ben Mutzabaugh has a good piece on the other really bad airports, although I suspect investments at LaGuardia won’t make it better any time soon.
The TSA doesn’t just fail to detect bombs and weapons 95% of the time, they fail to detect people, too.
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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 »
