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Each year IdeaWorks publishes a ‘study’ of reward availability, and it gets repeated as though it had value across the media. It doesn’t. The methodology is so fatally flawed that it draws almost the exact opposite conclusions as it should. Don’t be fooled.
Departing the Park Hyatt Maldives, you take a boat to the airport and then an hour long domestic flight to get back to the country’s capital of Male. Here’s the boat and domestic Maldivian flight experience.
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Via the UK’s Independent, a woman on an Air Asia flight from Singapore to Sydney wrote a letter to the passenger in 15A. What I had initially thought to be a routine flight turned out to be a once in a lifetime experience – and it was all because of you. …Despite my common economy seat, you offered me a full back massage by repeatedly kicking the back of chair. To date, I have yet to regain full mobility of the lower half of my body. But since I am single, I suppose I don’t have much use for it anyway. I did not pay for the in-flight entertainment package and I was worried that I might get bored. But my concerns were unnecessary. You were talking so loudly, as if your friend was seated…
A baby was born onboard an Air Canada flight from Calgary to Tokyo over the weekend. The woman apparently didn’t know she was even pregnant, and the boyfriend is now afraid of the woman’s father. Fortunately for mother and child there were two doctors onboard… they didn’t even need to divert the aircraft, and the flight was given priority clearance to land at Narita..
As part of Cathay Pacific’s revamp of its frequent flyer program, there’s discussion of limiting partner airlines from accessing award space on their flights. This would be a huge deal for AAdvantage members. But how likely is it?
Readers naturally are wary of fuel surcharges, and I absolutely hate them. But you should be educated about how much they are for different destinations before dismissing them out of hand — some programs that add fuel surcharges also charge much fewer miles. It’s worth learning the sweet spots where fuel surcharges can be well worth the savings in miles.
Korean Air is rolling out a new first class suite with doors. That’s fantastic news for an airline that already offers the best first class award availability from the most US cities.
You can book first class awards most of the time you want them, and the product is getting even better.
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The US Bank Korean Visa increased its signup bonus. That’s great because Korean miles are really valuable, and because Chase points also transfer to Korean so it’s easy to get more. Here’s how to use them.
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 »
