Alaska demolishes award chart, United’s VP of Networks, worst flight, new Fifth Freedom hopefuls, Gift Card Arbitrage





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  • Money Meta Game shares the basics of gift card arbitrage – it’s a good refresher.
  • Amazon’s having some issues with their Fulfillment Centers being overly full. A couple of weeks ago they started restricting shipments of specific products, now they are offering free removal of products you want to pull back. This is something to jump on, if there’s anything you’ve been thinking about. Its only $0.50 savings, but, never hurts.

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5 thoughts on “Alaska demolishes award chart, United’s VP of Networks, worst flight, new Fifth Freedom hopefuls, Gift Card Arbitrage

  1. Did you read Lucky’s post from yesterday? http://goo.gl/3r3LeF Your anger towards Alaska is a bit misplaced. Emirates felt the first class redemption requests from Alaska was excessive and requested less redemptions and Alaska complied. Emirates could’ve pulled all first class availability if they wanted to but Alaska worked it out with them by basically halving all future requests. Look at the bright side. There’s still availability!

    • @Steven – I saw Lucky’s post, and have no doubt that Emirates is pushing a lot of the change, but no-notice is something that really frustrates me. You see, Alaska could’ve agreed to a higher “internal reimbursement rate” with Emirates, and said they’d raise the award chart in 15-30 days, and that would’ve been a reasonable compromise. I find it humorous that Emirates finds redemptions to be “excessive” yet, I think in the dozen or so Emirates First Class flights I’ve had, I think once, the cabin was full. At least 2 times, my wife and I were the only ones, and the rest there were maybe 2 or 3 others in the cabin, in addition to my wife and myself (so still half full at best).

      • @trevor dude you have flown emirates F a DOZEN times and are complaining? yikes. the game is shifting for the worse, be grateful for the killer experiences/5m showers at 35k feet and find value elsewhere (it still exists!). a no notice deval is not great but no one ever discusses? the average annual percentage deval. sure, 40-60% or more is a pricey bump but it’s not like they deval’d last year amirite? #silverlining

  2. “Alaska Demolishes Award Chart”
    Congratulations! A definite early favorite for winning this month’s “Most Hyperbolic Miles Blog Lead” award. (But don’t get too excited just yet. The month’s still young…)

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