Marriott Rewards recently released enhancements, and I’m really going to call them enhancements… Heck, I’m not even sure if Marriott called them enhancements, but by golly they are!Others have written about these Marriott Rewards enhancements, and normally, I’ll leave it to the more mainstream bloggers, but I’m a Marriott guy. When most folks scoff at…
Alaska Airlines has a new promotion, the Scenic Route Sweepstakes. The promotion is sponsored by Cartera, and is really operated out of the Mileage Plan Shopping Mall. Online Shopping Portals are always positive in my opinion.The promotion period is between 5 October and 25 October, and you can earn 5 entries by making a purchase…
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…
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…
This past Thursday I had the chance to attend the Freddie Awards. For a little background, the Freddie Awards, named after Sir Freddie Laker, the founder of Laker Air, Britain’s first all-jet air carrier (way back in 1966). Randy Peterson (who we all know, is the Godfather of miles and points), named the awards, which award…
My last United flight to Las Vegas and back was nothing special to write about. Despite getting one upgrade to Economy Plus from Cleveland to Chicago, I ended up in regular Economy on the leg from Chicago to Las Vegas. The way back wasn’t any more pleasant. After flying from Las Vegas to Houston overnight…
One of the best pieces of advice about finding award space that I could offer is – find the most difficult leg of the itinerary, and work from there. There are a lot of tools available online that can help in finding award space, but not all of them are robust enough to think of weird permutations…
I’ll be the first to admit – I’m a big fan of hotel elite status. I’ve even had twitter conversations about hotel elite status, but as 2014 is coming to a close, I’m really starting to question how much it is really worth. From a personal standpoint:For the past 3 years, I’ve held Marriott Platinum…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, Flying All Nippon Airways Square Class, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review, The Grand Hyatt Beijing, and the Hyatt Regency Mainz.This is part two of the ANA Flight 1101 -Chicago-O’Hare (ORD) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT) review, as my wife and mother in-law…
Weeks ago, I was lamenting the fact that my Star Alliance Gold Status on Aegean would soon be going away. By soon – I mean November 2015. But that’s still long enough away where I need to start thinking about a backup plan today.In my first attempt, I realized typical alternate options (United and Air Canada) may…