New Starwood-Uber Partnership: Earn Starpoints for Uber Rides!

Starwood is bringing out a new global partnership with Uber that allows members to link their Starwood and Uber accounts and earn Starpoints for the Uber rides they take (last name and email addresses on both accounts must match). Starwood adds Uber to its stable of points-earning partners which includes Crossover Rewards (Delta), Your World […]

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Are executives hiding from their customers?

from Elliott http://elliott.org/advice-you-can-take/executives-hiding-customers/

Delta’s Response to Charging Elites More Miles for Awards

Earlier I reported that Delta appears to be charging more miles for elites booking economy awards than general members. Logged in elites would see a one-way flight for 17,500 miles that general members would see priced at 12,500 miles. Delta spokesman Anthony Black emails, I Saw your note on the award price issue. We are […]

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Will AAdvantage And Dividend Miles Merge Around March 20, 2015?

Last October American announced the details of the 2015 AAdvantage program, including that the AAdvantage and Dividend Miles programs will merge sometime in the second quarter of 2015.

An exact date for the integration of the two programs hasn’t yet been announced, though it looks like we might now have reason to believe that AAdvantage and Dividend Miles will merge around March 20, 2015, which is a bit ahead of schedule (which I know they’ve been aiming for all along).

Specifically, US Airways has posted that their Dividend Miles partnership with Jet Airways will end as of March 20, 2015:

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Delta Currently Charging Elite Members Extra Miles to Book Award Tickets That Everyone Else Can Get for Less

Last week Delta ‘tuned up’ the SkyMiles technology and I wondered if I was being paranoid to believe that was more likely than not bad for members. This week we’re learning that Delta — whether by glitch or by design — seems to be charging their own elite members more miles for economy awards than […]

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eDreams adds Japan to growing APAC line-up

Barcelona-based eDreams has launched in Japan, describing the move as “a major step forward in [its] internationalization strategy.” In response to emailed ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/edreams-Japan-APAC/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=edreams-adds-japan-growing-apac-line

Paddling across the US

"Dave and Amy Freeman canoe 2,000 miles from Minnesota to Washington DC to bring awareness to dangerous mining projects jeopardizing the Boundary Waters."



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/paddling-across-us-clean-water/

Trying Again: Comments Closed For The Next Few Hours

Last week I sent the blog in for some minor maintenance, though as is often the case when I'm involved with technology, things didn't go quite as planned.

Apparently the issues have been resolved, so we're making another attempt at updates this evening.

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Register For Hilton’s 2015 Double Your HHonors Promotion

In late January I posted about how Hilton announced that they would change the way they do HHonors promotions as of this year. As I explained, Hilton will be offering two global HHonors promotions annually, rather than the four we became accustomed to. In addition to that they promised to offer targeted promotions throughout the year.

Anyway, Hilton has just announced the details of their first global 2015 promotion, entitled Double Your HHonors.

Through this promotion, members can choose either double HHonors base points or double airline miles for stays at qualifying hotels between March 1 and May 31, 2015.

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Why Airlines Should Improve Their Coffee

Coffee fuels business travel, and most providers don’t understand that. Flat White at the Park Hyatt Sydney Have you ever actually tried to drink the coffee on a US domestic airline? American’s new Airbus A321T flying between New York JFK and Los Angeles and San Francisco has a cappuccino machine in first class. I have […]

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My New Favorite: Korean Airlines and SKYPASS Rewards Program

Let me preface this article by saying that there are plenty of “how to book Korean Air awards” articles out there. So I won’t cover that. Rather, my goal is to communicate how much easier it is to book awards with Korean Air (KE) than perceived, and how valuable they can be for award travel […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2015/02/why-i-love-korean-air-and-the-skypass-rewards-program.html

12 beautiful images of Palawan

How is this place even real?



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LoungeBuddy kicks back with $3 million Series A to expand global lounge access

LoungeBuddy (TLabs here) has locked in its Series A financing in an oversubscribed round that netted $3 million. The lead investor is ...



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More Than 68M Americans Traveled Abroad In 2014

Travel outside the U.S. by Americans was up 10 percent in 2014, the largest growth in a decade.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/americans-traveled-abroad-record-numbers-2014-1826816

Chase Sapphire Preferred Vs. Citi ThankYou Premier Card: Which Is Better?

I recently wrote a post about the benefits of the Chase Sapphire Preferred, which is the single card I use more than any other. I consider this to be a super-card, of sorts:

-- The card has a generous sign-up bonus

-- It has a reasonable $95 annual fee (waived the first year) and no foreign transaction fees, which is useful given how much time I spend outside the US

-- It offers double points in the categories I spend the most in (dining and travel)

-- It offers one of the most valuable transferable points currencies, given that points can be transferred to programs like British Airways Executive Club, Hyatt Gold Passport, Korean Air SkyPass, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, etc.

Citi's equivalent of the Chase Sapphire Preferred is the Citi ThankYou Premier Card, which is seeing a change in benefits as of April 19, 2015. I wrote a post a while back covering the new benefits of the Citi ThankYou Premier Card, and reader Sandeep asked if I could write an updated comparison between the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Citi ThankYou Premier cards.

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