Citibank keeps getting better and better, with big signup bonuses for ThankYou points cards, transferrable points, and now a transfer bonus to an airline.
Etihad is bonusing Citibank transfers, and it makes the Etihad Guest redemption program pretty attractive.
Delta didn’t just eliminate their award chart. They didn’t just impose three week advance purchase requirements on saver awards across a majority of their routes. And award seats aren’t just hard to get.
They also impose a practice known as “journey control” — a given Delta flight may be available to some customers as a saver award and not to others.. and it has nothing to do with their elite status.
Here’s what “journey control” is, and what it means for your miles.
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The FAA sampled toilet paper that fell from the sky onto a Pennsylvania town.
The investigation sought to determine if a toilet’s lavatories had malfunctioned.
The New York Times has a useful piece that helps understand what makes a credit card useful for consumers, and identifies some of the best ones currently in the marketplace.
Apparently he just wanted a date. The immigration officer started by asking probing and seemingly unnecessary questions “like how many children I have, do I drink, do I smoke or eat chicken”, the woman told Indian news channel Times Now. “He also asked me whether I sleep with other men when my husband is at work,” the woman alleged. The passenger was departing Delhi enroute to Hong Kong. Apparently her alarm bells only went up when she was asked “if she would like to have her third child with” the immigration officer. Eventually allowed to clear departure formalities, the officer followed her through the airport. He has since been arrested.
Lufthansa generally opens first class award seats to their partners only within 14 days of travel.
Their Los Angeles and San Francisco – Frankfurt flights are among the toughest to get, even then.
And yet right now most days currently have 2 first class award seats open from late November through March…
A reader made two mistakes booking his award trip that cost him a chance to experience Etihad’s First Class Apartments, the most luxurious cabin in the skies. What mistakes did he make, and how can you avoid them when you book your own award trip?
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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 »
