I’m at Frequent Traveler University by the Dallas airport (at the Hyatt Regency DFW).
And since I’m living in Austin now I decided, why not just commute?
Flights go for as little as $64 each way as long as you’re buying them in advance when flights aren’t full and it isn’t an event week(end). That meant I could fly from Austin to Dallas and back for less than the cost of a hotel night at the group rate…
Find out what the latest Southwest devaluation means for your points.
An air marshal left a loaded gun in a Newark airport bathroom. We already know that air marshalls schedule their work assignments to facilitate vacations and sexual trysts, and are insufficiently trained to do much even if something did happen on their watch. But this isn’t good. A federal air marshal left his loaded gun in a bathroom stall at Newark Liberty International Airport, then boarded a flight he was assigned to protect without it, NJ Advance Media has learned. The incident occurred late last month, when the marshal left the handgun on top of a toilet paper dispenser in the public men’s room near Checkpoint 2 in Terminal C (HT: Brian Sumer)
IHG Rewards Club is about to launch their next promotion and it’s more lucrative than things first appeared. It sounded complicated with earning and gifting but truth is you can gift to yourself and double your earnings. This is how it will work.
Citibank and Visa have stolen the Costco relationship away American Express, which has been the exclusive card product at the wholesaler’s stores in the US for 16 years. Details of the deal have finally come out, and we can see just how badly Citi let itself get creamed to do so.
British Airways and Iberia disagree with the rest of the airlines of Europe over complaints about the 3 big Gulf carriers (their parent company is ~ 10% owned by Qatar, and prior to that BA sponsored Qatar into oneworld).
Of course BA and Iberia are joint business venture partners with American who is a prime driver of complaints.
Etihad has big ownership stakes in several European carriers, and Emirates is a huge Airbus operator which just signed a nearly $10 billion deal for new European engines. Things get even more complicated still..
American, British Airways, and BA’s ‘OpenSkies’ are matching cheap business class prices to Paris. The fares are hundreds of dollars cheaper than La Compagnie when stacking discounts. And you earn miles and status.
At under $1200 it’s one of the best non-mistake business class deals to Europe we’ve seen, available all summer and into early fall.
American has credit cards now issued by both Citibank and Barclays, and both come with 10% rebates on award redemptions. What happens when you redeem an award — and you have both cards? Here’s what happened to me yesterday.
Hillary Clinton flies United coach… but gets special ground service. Free miles for signing up for a frequent flyer program. How to spot a terrorist through their ticketing strategies. And more…
The end game in the US airlines’ war on the Gulf carriers is revealed — Delta’s CEO says that US government should step in to limit their ability to reduce prices. It’s all about limiting choice and raising airfares. Now who still stands behind the US airline position?
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.
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