Twitter, the blogosphere, heck the entire miles and points world is up in arms over an e-mail British Airways sent out this morning. Here’s the quick version (aka the one graphic that’ll tell you all you need to know):British Airway’s succinct changes.So just to summarize: 4,500 Avios award dies officially on 2 February 2016. 7,500…
Alaska Airlines, or rather Bank of America tends to send a good number of targeted bonuses. This is one that I received today:Its kind’ve a run of the mill offer, if you ask me, not terribly enticing, but also not terribly difficult to achieve.Here are the Terms and Conditions: *To be eligible for this offer,…
I’m not sure if this has been written about elsewhere, so thought I’d throw it out there. I received via e-mail and snail mail an offer essentially offering 15,000 bonus miles for spending $500 in each October, November, and December.The interesting part to me though is the terms and conditions: Offer is valid for select…
Delta Airlines has a new advertisement out, entitled “Why We Go”, with a voice over by Donald Sutherland (although I still keep thinking “Hunger Games” when I hear his voice, although that would be more apt for Etihad).The premise of the commercial highlights how amazing air travel is. It is–their words–extraordinary. Ed mentioned in his…
Right now, Alaska Airlines is selling miles for as low as 1.97 cents per mile (Link via Travel Codex). I usually don’t think about buying miles or points, unless its just to top up for an award, but, I really like Emirates–I know, shocking for regular Tagging Miles readers.So here I am, thinking to myself, that…
I haven’t flown Lufthansa as much as some people, but, I have flown it a bit. Lufthansa holds a special place in my heart, as it was my first award flight in first class (it was a trip to Japan, flying LH A380, it rocked).But alas, with such highs, come lows. I mentioned back in November…
American has introduced a new voice response system. They “say” they are making it easier for you. I respectfully disagree, but not without caveats.Before I go into what will inevitably be a rant, let me cover the basics for what American’s new system should allow you to do without talking to a person:Unfortunately for me,…
I have a few minutes of downtime this evening after my daily search for reselling products, and have been having travel withdrawal of late, so I pulled up my trusty British Airways search tool and looked for some flights, pursuing my great white whale – Cathay Pacific First Class. Suffice it to say, I was…
Airlines have tried for ages to figure out the fastest way to board a plane. In fact, other heavyweights such as the Mythbusters have dissected the issue, testing out in a scientific manner which approach is most efficient. The fact is, planes don’t make the airlines money when they sit on the ground.Today we learn…
A little birdie was kind enough to share that British Airways has loaded the 777 (and thus increased award space) for the Austin-London-Heathrow route.The first reference I could find about the upgauging of Austin-London from a 787-8 to a 777 was Routes Online, in fact, posted back in October, however from a quick look, I…