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Award Seats to Australia May Dry Up Afterall As the Best Option Ends a Route
Historically Virgin Australia has had amazing business class award availability to Australia. That’s been probably the best overall use of Delta Skymiles — searchable online, and without fuel surcharges — since Australia awards and especially during high season are one of the holy grails of mileage redemption. Space has been cyclical — 4 seats every day, then nothing, then wide open again. But will the space come back? Virgin Australia is cancelling their Los Angeles – Melbourne flight effective right as United starts up theirs. The North America – Australia and New Zealand route is served without a stopover in Tahiti or Fiji and without transiting Asia by: United Qantas Delta Virgin Australia Air Canada Air New Zealand New Zealand awards are harder than Australia awards. Air New Zealand used to open up business class…
New Points Earning Options for Booking Hotels
PointsHound now lets you choose to earn points or rebates for the hotel bookings you make for yourself or others in 18 different currencies. You can do bitcoin if you wish, basically just earning in a foreign currency. Or you can earn miles with a bunch of different programs. The newest options are Cathay Pacific’s AsiaMiles and JetBlue’s TrueBlue. I find the best rates of return to be Alaska miles and American miles (I generally choose to accrue with Alaska). You can sign up without a bonus, or the standard offer for being referred by an existing PointsHound user is 250 points each with your first booking. My referral link, though, ups that bonus to 1000 miles. My favorite things about PointsHound have been: That you earn miles when booking for someone else That they…
100 Free Aeroplan Miles
But you have to sign up to receive text messages from the program. Here is what you can expect from the Aeroplan Text Message Service No more than 2 or 3 text messages per month. Up-to-the-minute opportunities to earn more miles. Program news and information. If you’re willing to do this, here’s how to sign up. You can unsubscribe from text messages after the miles post in 3-4 weeks. Last year I called Aeroplan the most devalued program in North America. First there was the gutting of their award chart on July 15, 2011. For instance, my favorite award — first class to most of Asia — went from 120,000 miles to 175,000 miles (a 46% increase in one shot). Australia awards went from 75,000 to 80,000 in coach; 100,000 to 135,000 in business (35%…
The Missing Citi Points Transfer Partner
I receive compensation for many links on this blog. You don’t have to use these links, but I am grateful to you if you do. I do not write about all credit cards that are available — instead focusing on miles, points, and cash back (and currencies that can be converted into the same). The Citi Thank You Points program — which long ago used to be one of my favorites — breathed some new life into the offering today with the introduction of airline mileage transfer partners. Earlier today I listed (7) airlines that you can transfer points to: Cathay Pacific AsiaMiles EVA Air Infinity MileageLands Etihad Guest Garuda Indonesia Frequent Flyer Qatar Airways Privilege Club Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Thai Airways Royal Orchid Plus Those are the seven listed as partner programs. But The…
Citi Thank You Points Just Became Really Useful Again!
Two-plus years ago there was much speculation about Citi introduces points transfer partners to the Thank You Points program. A year and a half ago they introduces transfers to Hilton HHonors. And that was it. Now they’ve gone ahead and done it!
Is This The End of Award Space to Australia?
Delta miles are great (yes, they really are!) for: Virgin Australia business class between the US and Australia. Australia awards, especially without transiting Asia, are among the very toughest to get but Delta miles have been this easy in the past. Saudia. Want to take your whole extended family in business class to India and surrounds on the same long haul flight? And they actually have a bit better of a product than you think. Virgin Atlantic without fuel surcharges, now that Delta owns 49% of the airline. Last month I highlighted Virgin Australia’s amazing award availability between the U.S. and Australia. Specifically, I showed just how many dates you’d find at least four business class seats on the Los Angeles – Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne routes. Sadly wide-open availability is no longer the case.
LifeMiles Reveals Its Big Star Alliance Award Chart Changes..
Since Avianca’s LifeMiles joined Star Alliance, it has been one of the most lucrative frequent flyer programs in the world. They’ve announced a new award chart starting October 15th, and have now released the details of the chart. Are there some great hidden gems? Are the increases bad? Will they change how to play this program?
What’s the Best Place in the World to Live for Convenient Travel?
Reader Jeff asks a question that may be too subject for me to answer definitely, what do you think? What is the best place in the world to live in to take advantage of not just miles/points, but to have relatively close access to great travel destinations? Criteria: — best proximity to desirable travel areas. I realize this is incredibly subjective, but, in general, most people would put Europe and SE Asia high on the list of desirable travel destinations.. Places with good climates, reasonably safe, etc. — major hub for an airline alliance — a nice place to live He goes on to speculate that outside of New York and Washington DC (with Star Alliance hubs and short travel time to all of the Americas and Western Europe) you’d rule out both North and…
Free Points Giveaway, 100% Transfer Bonus, and Double Miles for the Whole 4th Quarter!
News and notes from around the interweb: I’m giving away 75,000 Hyatt points! You can enter up to 4 times. I received an email from Avianca LifeMiles that their 100% bonus on transferred miles has been extended through July 21. A resort that hides bottles of rum in the water Up to 30% off Hyatts in Asia through July 20 Fly Copa airlines in August or September and then all of your Copa flights October through December earn double United MileagePlus miles. Registration required. Starwood is offering 35% off award redemptions at 6 of their most absurdly priced resorts. You can join the 40,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day — sign up to receive posts by email (just one e-mail per day) or subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s free. You…
