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Amazing Star Alliance Award Space to Europe: 4 to 8 Seats and No Fuel Surcharges, Act Fast

by Gary Leff on October 24, 2015

Oct 24 2015

Star Allinace member Turkish Airlines has opened up as many as 8 business class award seats or more between the US and Istanbul in 2016. This is available on a wide range of dates.

Turkish serves more countries in the world than any other airline (and fourth most destinations and will provide a free hotel night in Istanbul if flight schedules force an overnight connection in Istanbul. You can generally route US – Istanbul on Turkish and then backtrack to Western Europe. They’re a great option for getting to Israel and to Athens, as well as to Africa and even Asia.

These are the Best Starwood Hotels in Each Region of the World

by Gary Leff on October 18, 2015

Oct 18 2015

Best can mean a lot of things. There are pure quality metrics, and we can debate those. But Starwood has done something interesting in coming up with a list of bests as deemed by Starwood Preferred Guest members which is to say that they are the hotels that best satisfy members and meet their needs (which is going to incorporate quality but also convenience of location and price point).

It’s an interesting methodology: What they did is they took the hotels with the highest customer survey ratings (“Guest Experience Index”), the best ratings and reviews on the Starwood website, and the most award nights redeemed. These three categories were evenly weighted, though they removed the properties that had low scores on customer surveys and online reviews, so ultimately removed several frequently redeemed-for hotels.

In Back to the Future, US Airways Survived Five Days Longer Than in the Real World

by Gary Leff on October 18, 2015

Oct 18 2015

Back to the Future Day is this coming Wednesday.

In the ‘real world’ US Airways had its last flight on Friday, October 16. But thanks to Twitter, we learn that US Air actually survived as an independent brand at least until October 21, 2015.

London – New York in One Hour Plus What Happened to New York’s Other Airport and More

by Gary Leff on October 17, 2015

Oct 17 2015

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ACT FAST: Amazing American AAdvantage Business Class Award Space to Europe Without Fuel Surcharges

by Gary Leff on October 15, 2015

Oct 15 2015

All American Airlines hubs with London service have wide open business class award space on American’s non-stop flights for a minimum of 2 passengers most days next summer. That’s really rare.

Many flights are even available with four business class awards — including Los Angeles – London flights onboard American’s Boeing 777-300ERs.

Why Is It So Hard to Upgrade Internationally on Delta?

by Gary Leff on October 15, 2015

Oct 15 2015

Delta is tough for international upgrades. They can be tough for domestic ones too, now that they’re monetizing 58% of their forward cabin premium seats.

Though they’ve gotten more generous with top tier elites the past couple of years offering confirmed upgrade certificates from any fare (which they didn’t used to do, and lagged both United and American with their international elite upgrade benefit as a result), they’re still pretty tough.

Still — there are things you can do to find upgrade seats.

American Stacks a Bonus and Discount to Sell Miles for 2.1 Cents Apiece

by Gary Leff on October 13, 2015

Oct 13 2015

American AAdvantage is stacking a purchased miles bonus with a discount through November 13 that lets you buy miles for ~ 2.1 cents a mile.

I assume the two are combined, rather than making a more straight-forward offer, in order to make this sound more exciting and a also a little more opaque in terms of doing the math.

Singapore Airlines Will Restart the World’s Longest Flights – And Why That Matters

by Gary Leff on October 13, 2015

Oct 13 2015

Qantas currently operates the longest flight in the world, Sydney – Dallas, with an Airbus A380.

Emirates is launching Dubai – Panama City as the new longest flight in the world operated by a Boeing 777-200LR.

But Singapore Airlines is poised to take the title when it re-launches non-stop service to the US, most likely in 2018, with new Airbus A350-900ULR aircraft.

Hyatt Regency’s New Branding Campaign: It’s Good Not to Be Home! (When All I Want Sometimes is to be… Home)

by Gary Leff on October 12, 2015

Oct 12 2015

Hyatt Regency has rolled out a new branding campaign “It’s good not to be home” when road warriors often want nothing more than the opposite — to finally spend some time at home.

And if you’re not going to be home, the new Hyatt Regency campaign doesn’t tell us much about why we’d want to be away from home at a Hyatt Regency over any other hotel.

American Airlines About to Announce Service to New Zealand

by Gary Leff on October 11, 2015

Oct 11 2015

When American Airlines announced new Los Angeles – Sydney service they teased possible flights to New Zealand. And acknowledged Auckland was on their radar.

It appears that American seems close to announcing Los Angeles – Auckland made possible by their closer joint venture with Qantas and the Boeing 787.