On Thursday I wrote a post entitled "Are Emirates First Class Redemptions Using Alaska Miles Going Away?"
Basically Alaska Mileage Plan doesn't seem to have access to any Emirates first class award availability for travel after March 28, 2015. Travel in Emirates first class is one of my favorite uses of Alaska Mileage Plan miles, so it would be a real shame if that opportunity went away.
I had reached out to an Alaska spokesperson earlier in the week regarding the situation. While Alaska didn't initially seem to be aware of the availability discrepancy, they are now, and are reaching out to Emirates to try and rectify the situation, which they believe to be a glitch.
Here's an official statement from an Alaska spokesperson regarding the situation:
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I like booking airline reservations through online travel sites like Orbitz, rather than directly, because it allows me to quintuple dip: My usual frequent flyer miles My usual points from credit card spend on the purchase A rebate for going through a shopping portal The online booking site’s rewards. Right now booking airline reservations through […]
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I'm rarely in one timezone for more than a few days, so I'm often asked how I deal with jetlag. The answer is coffee. Lots and lots and lots of coffee. All day. Every day.
That's why I write quite a bit about hotel coffee. When you're jetlagged and constantly in different timezones, you notice the oddities of how different hotels approach coffee.
Some hotels offer crap in-room coffee.
Some offer good in-room coffee.
And some offer coffee in the lobby.
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Leaving Mobile, Alabama I decided to visit the Mobile Airport Authority Executive Lounge. That’s one readers of my lounge reviews might not have been expecting. Of course, I didn’t even realize that the Mobile, Alabama airport had a lounge. Let alone that it’s free, if you know how to access it. This is an airport-run […]
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Airlines are slowly retiring the gas-guzzling queen of the skies, the Boeing 747 (the pretty ones are always the thirstiest, eh?).
As an aviation geek it's tough to not get at least a little bit sentimental about it. Many of us grew up flying the 747 and associate many of our first longhaul journeys with the plane, so seeing them slowly scrapped and dumped in the desert is like losing an old friend.
The only good thing about 747 retirement is that we seem to get a cool "farewell" video from each airline whenever it happens.
Most recently, EVA Air has posted a 747-400 farewell video on YouTube:
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