How to Avoid Getting Taken By a Rental Car Company Over Damage

Christopher Elliott thinks that car rental companies are too quick to blame consumers for damage, and consumers too unwilling to own up to damaging cars. Both claims are probably true. As the last renter of a vehicle, a rental car company may assume you caused damage. But a car could have had pre-existing, undocumented damage […]

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80% Bonus On Virgin America Elevate Points Tomorrow

Virgin America's Elevate program is offering an 80% bonus on the purchase of points tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The promotion will last for only eight hours, from 9AM to 5PM EST.

They're claiming it's their "Biggest Elevate Points Bonus Ever," which I guess is technically true, since they've never offered a bigger bonus. Though last March they did offer the same 80% bonus.

Virgin America Elevate points ordinarily cost 5.2 cents each to purchase, so through this promotion Virgin America Elevate points can be purchased for ~2.89 cents each. You can purchase up to 20,000 points per account per calendar year, before factoring in the 80% bonus (meaning you can purchase a maximum of ~36,000 points through this promotion).

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UNESCO World Heritage Site #283: Painted Churches in the Troodos Region

From the World Heritage inscription: The Troodos mountain region of Cyprus contains one of the largest groups of churches and monasteries of the former Byzantine Empire. The ten monuments included on the World Heritage List, all richly decorated with murals, provide an overview of Byzantine and post-Byzantine painting in Cyprus and bear testimony to the [...]



from Everything Everywhere Travel Blog http://everything-everywhere.com/2014/10/20/unesco-world-heritage-site-283-painted-churches-troodos-region/

Frequent Flier: A Wayward Tablet Shares a Seat Pocket With a Guardian Angel

A lost tablet finds its way back to its worried owner thanks to the founder of a pharmaceutical-naming agency and, maybe, some divine intervention.

















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Itineraries: Love Field Flight Limits End, and Passengers Cheer

Because some identical or similar routes are now offered at Love and Dallas-Forth Worth International, travelers have a rare blessing: options.

















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And… It’s Gone (For Realz)

The Chase Ink Plus 70,000 point signup offer was advertised as running through October 19th. Readers had ample warning that the offer was going to be pulled, but I noted this morning that the Chase site still had the application and offer live. So anyone that meant to sign up still could. Some folks thought […]

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On the Road: For Travel Pros, Ebola Fears Create Teaching Moments

The effects in the business travel industry have been negligible so far, but concerns are growing.

















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IHG Into The Nights Promo Being Honored… Mostly

IHG Rewards Club has one of the most lucrative (and complicated) fall hotel promotions, entitled Into the Nights. It’s valid for stays between September 4 and December 31, 2014, and through the promotion you have to complete various "tasks" in order to earn the highest bonus.

Here's what my original bonus offer looked like:

However, as I wrote about yesterday, IHG seems to have changed the terms of the promotion for many members mid-promotion.

In my case, for example, the requirement went from having to download the IHG App and make one booking in order to "unlock" that bonus, to having to make five bookings through the app. That's a huge change, obviously.

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Scheduled To Fly Lufthansa? Here’s What You Need To Know

If you were supposed to fly on a Lufthansa flight canceled because of the pilots strike, here's how to make the best of a bad situation.



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Should the Details of Your Hotel Stay Remain Private? Should They Be Kept Easily Accessible to Police?

The Supreme Court has granted cert in the case of City of Los Angeles v. Patel, meaning they will consider the Los Angeles regulation requiring hotels make guest records available to police for inspection. The lawsuit is a ‘facial challenge’ to the regulation, meaning it argues the regulation is always unconstitutional as a violation of […]

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Airberlin’s Changing Routes — What This Means For Award Travelers

According to Airlineroute.net, there’s good news and bad news to report about oneworld member airberlin. The bad news: effective May 4, 2015, airberlin is canceling its Berlin Tegel – Miami route, which currently operates four times a week. Dusseldorf – Miami operations appear to remain unchanged. The good news? Airberlin has also announced that they […]



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T Magazine: A New Short Film, Starring James Franco, From the Artist Daniel Arsham

Premiering exclusively here, the new collaboration between the two talents depicts the end of the world as they know it.

















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Hotel Review: Radisson Martinique, New York – Club Level

For our recent strategy meeting in New York, the TPG team checked into a variety of hotels around the city. Lifestyle Editor Shayne Benowitz stayed at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway. Here’s her review. Stay tuned for more New York City hotel reviews. My cab turned onto the bustling, slightly chaotic corner of Broadway and […]



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Here’s a new customer service award you’ll actually use

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Armchair Inventory Management

I'd like to think that for the most part my blog isn't about drawing conclusions, but rather about starting conversations. For example, earlier I posted about airberlin discontinuing flights between Miami and Berlin. I wasn't saying it was a bad move, but rather just explained why I found it strange.

This post will be different, as I'm going to draw a conclusion -- American's revenue management got a route wrong. Really, really wrong. Even more so than they got award availability between London and New York wrong last weekend. ;)

As I posted about back in June, American will be adding one daily nonstop flight between Tampa and Los Angeles as of November 6, 2014. Currently Delta operates in the market with two daily nonstop flights. It's probably not the most lucrative market in the world, but presumably Delta does decently well between passengers traveling to Los Angeles, other parts of California, Asia, and Australia.

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