American Airlines has partnered with Uber as well. It provides for integration with the American mobile app and ride reminders. Which in and of itself is ‘meh’.
There are two worthwhile promotions as part of this new partnership, however. Although both are limited-time.
The AAdvantage shopping portal is offering $1 trial subscriptions to both Barron’s and the Wall Street Journal each of which offer 1300 miles for signing up.
You’ll just need to set reminders to cancel your subscriptions before the introductory period ends.
Back in November, a Southwest Airlines flight proved why you shouldn’t try to bring your own alcohol onboard.
You can bring mini-bottles of alcohol through security. But you cannot open them and drink them on a plane. You can buy alcohol post-security, such as at duty free. But you cannot open the bottles and drink them on a plane.
It is a violation of federal law to drink alcoholic beverage onboard an an aircraft unless served by the airline. Airlines have the option of serving you the alcohol you bring onboard yourself, but that’s entirely at their discretion (and the discretion of the flight attendants on any given flight).
American has been making award space especially in premium cabins much more available and this is a new intentional approach on their part.
I’ve covered American loosening up availability on the Sydney route. And I covered the floodgates opening for award space on London routes. And how they opened up China flying. That was just the start.
American Airlines Boeing 787 Business Class
Improved availability hasn’t spread to domestic routes in the same way, although there are some predictable patterns such as with American’s New York JFK – Los Angeles and New York JFK – San Francisco routes. American has the most premium product on that route, with the only three-cabin service on all flights between those cities.
This doesn’t appear to be advertised on the Virgin Atlantic website yet but they appear to have their award semi-regular award sale pricing for economy and premium economy redemptions loaded.
In fact, the pricing seems to be up to 30% off, which is better than their usual sales (back in the fall they offered 20% off).
Awards are pricing with a discount originating in the US or the UK, even on one-way awards, and even for premium economy.
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Airbnb and other homesharing sites are apparently how prostitutes are now renting out space.
And here I thought people only rented their places out on Airbnb to themselves, for the Virgin America miles.
You’d sort of expect the world’s oldest profession to be everywhere, so why not the sharing economy I suppose?
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Using miles for things other than travel has been an increasing trend, the loyalty programs have been offering several new options over the past few years — whether it’s redeeming miles for other travel like hotels and rental cars, or for LCD toasters.
Miles are almost always best spent for travel. That’s because earning miles isn’t just a rebate on your travel or credit card spend.
Star Alliance program Avianca LifeMiles is offering a 100% bonus on transferred miles through February 23. With this offer you can effectively buy miles with this promotion for 1.5 cents apiece.
Star Alliance member Avianca has really useful miles (that have gotten more useful over the past few months!) through the LifeMiles program.
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