The Weekly 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 know!
Do Now (if you haven’t already)
- A guest post on the Flight Deal from Michael Rubiano, on why a bargain isn’t a bargain. Its worth a read, especially if you may be considering flying Spirit.
- CrankyFlier talks about why everybody loses with Delta and American’s interline agreement not being renewed. And, its all Delta’s fault.
- You will soon be able to fly to Africa on Air Canada.
- A week late intentionally, but the best post I saw on September 11th, honoring September 11th, was from Airways News. I–like many others–still remember that Tuesday like it was yesterday. That’s all I’ll say on the matter.
Miles and Points
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Travel is Free has a good post on no annual fee travel credit cards, and downgradable cards.
- Matt poses the question, if you had to turn your miles and points game upside down, how would you do it? He shares his observations of two other travel hackers, who go about travel hacking differently from himself.
- Frequent Miler shares a way to convert Discover Cashback into airline miles. I’m not sure you’ll see me doing this, but, I still admire the innovative approach.
- Continuing on the innovative thread, Kenny shares ideas of using American Airlines miles for things other than flights (really!)
- 37 Rentals in 2 days, a new flyertalk legend (and first shared with me by Adam)
Tagging Miles Posts of the Week
- We were mostly about Bermuda this week, having really enjoyed the Fairmont Southampton, including the public areas, and the room.
- In other news, ANA rolled out their Star Wars R2-D2 liveried 787, which looks awesome.
