Most airlines don’t show availability of awards on all of their partners on their own websites. You’d think you could type in where you’re flying from and where you’re going and get a list of available flights, but that’s often not the case.
That’s why it pays to call in addition to searching online — the best thing is to find award space yourself and then call, asking for exactly the flights you already know are available.
Last week I ran a contest to give away a $500 credit for new discount hotel booking site Club1 Hotels.
Club1 Hotels is a membership site, and that lets them sell rooms at a discount, offering lower rates to consumers instead of taking their booking commission. They report that they make money on membership fees rather than individual bookings.
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Jennifer Aniston is back in a new ad for Emirates. They teased it yesterday with a mystery, who was the man in her seat?
After showering and getting dressed, Jennifer Aniston returns to her first class suite to find a young boy sitting there. They chat, and she takes him to the Emirates bar for a juice on the way to bringing him back to his family seated back in coach. The look on the boy’s father’s face is priceless when Jennifer Aniston shows up with his son. He doesn’t seem too happy when his wife arrives on the other side of the aisle at the same time!
The Trump campaign’s biggest spend is on his own Boeing 757 (“TAG Air”).
Hillary Clinton’s biggest spend is on private jet travel as well. Here are her feet propped against the bulkhead.
Both campaigns spend more on American and Delta flights than they do United.
There’s some pretty incredible video of a Wow Air Airbus A330-300 flying through a lightning storm enroute from Iceland to Paris on Monday.
While on average it’s said that every commercial plane is struck by lightning at least once a year, I believe it’s been over 40 years since a crash has been attributed to a lightning strike. The fuselage of a plane will conduct electricity and allow it to trasmit from the strike and generally out the tail.
British Airways has a one minute spot with two kids debating the merits of American Airlines and British Airways business class.
American and British Airways (along with Finnair and Iberia) have an anti-trust immunized joint venture across the Atlantic, which allows them to share revenue and coordinate schedules and pricing. They are (or in theory should be) largely indifferent as to whose metal you fly across the Pond.
So naturally the argument in this spot is that both are awesome! Here’s the truth.
Jennifer Aniston is back in a new ad for Emirates. Jennifer gets out of the Emirates shower spa, gets ready for her day, and then heads back to her seat — only to find a man waiting for her in her suite.
Although Delta has a terrible penchant for changing award prices without notice — a practice I believe is unfair and deceptive, we’ve known that even though Delta removed award charts from their website, they still price awards based on charts. In other words, there are fixed prices that correspond to different inventory levels.
Partner awards have always been saver awards. Until now.
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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 »
