AMEX Business Platinum is killing the 50% rebate. I can’t begin to put to words how I feel about the matter. I’ve not even leveraged this particular benefit–it was only first announced in October. AMEX Platinum is killing the 50% Rebate – but what was it?American Express enhanced the AMEX Business Platinum card benefits with…
The Weekly Travel News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect the positions of Tagging Miles, and should not be considered endorsements. Have a great story we should read? Contact us now and let us…
I’m heading up to the Freddie Awards later today, with a slight deviation to last year, a couple of early Freddie Awards winners were announced ahead of the actual event. Some facts about the Freddie AwardsThe Freddie, as I noted in my post urging folks to vote, is the opportunity for frequent travelers to vote…
Last year my wife and I made a pretty significant decision in how we run our reselling business. We had been chasing every opportunity we learned of. Best Buy’s Daily Deals? Gotta jump. Kohls offering 30% off plus Kohls Cash (which also stacks with Kohls Yes2You rewards), jump! At some point last year, we made…
Reading a post yesterday evening, something struck me. Lucky made the assertion that Qatar Airways’ Business Class was already the worlds best business class. This even before you factor in their new Qsuites. It occurred to me that I’ve been flying a bunch of business class lately, and Qatar wasn’t the top of the list for…
Selling chocolate and other meltable inventory via Amazon is a great gig in the winter, however, during the summer months, Amazon doesn’t fulfill meltable inventory. This is primarily due to the fact that warehouses are hard to keep cool during the summer. As a result, Amazon marks anything “meltable” as “unsellable” from 1 May to…
I think we’ve all enjoyed the purely parody account of @FakeUnitedJeff … Yes, he’s the parody of the “has been” United CEO, who was unceremoniously outed after a rather awkward outing of the Chairman of the Port Authority of NY-NJ’s flight to Columbia, South Carolina. It was an unfortunate event for Jeff Smisek, but 20 April…
The Weekly Travel News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect the positions of Tagging Miles, and should not be considered endorsements. Have a great story we should read? Contact us now and let us…
Its a few days after Tax Day in the United States, and while you may be still getting over it, it never hurts to consider next year. So to, this is the perfect time to talk Taxes for travel hackers and resellers. This podcast features the venerable Matt Hague and Joe Cheung. Matt has talked about…
Hotel chains vary in how they do cancellations for awards, but I would argue that Hyatt’s award cancellation or no show policy has the risk of being really, really painful. Example of Hyatt’s Award Cancellation and No Show PolicyTake for example, a stay that I had booked in December for SXSW in Austin, which I ended…