Cheap Cathay Pacific Business Class Via Alaska Promo

As I originally posted about a couple of weeks ago, Alaska is offering up to a 40% bonus on purchased miles through April 3, 2015.

The bonuses are tiered, meaning the more miles you buy, the bigger the bonus you get, as follows:

-- Buy 5,000 – 9,000 miles: get a 10% Bonus

-- Buy 10,000 – 19,000 miles: get a 20% Bonus

-- Buy 20,000 – 39,000 miles: get a 30% Bonus

-- Buy 40,000 miles: get a 40% bonus

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100,000 Mile Bonus, Free Virgin Miles, Passenger Shaming and a $5000 Prize Giveaway!

News and notes from around the interweb: Oneworld airline Qatar Airways is offering up to 100,000 bonus miles for flights to different groups of destinations, in various classes of service, and at different times of the year. Earning 100,000 bonus miles also earns an elite status tier upgrade as well. A woman gave birth in […]

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Germanwings Had Stellar Safety Record Before Crash

The low-cost Germanwings, a Lufthansa subsidiary founded in 2012, had had no crashes or fatalities.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/germanwings-safety-record-flight-4u-9525-no-crashes-or-fatalities-1857014

9 signs you're Chinese-American

Your mom drove a Lexus RX300. If she didn’t, she knew some other Chinese school mom who drove one and secretly hated her guts. You might be able to cop a fake LV bag, but there’s no such thing as a bootleg Lexus.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/9-signs-raised-chinese-american-family/

Help! Our weekend in Miami turned into a visit to the ER — can we get a refund?

from Elliott http://elliott.org/from-the-trenches/help-our-weekend-in-miami-turns-into-a-visit-to-the-er/

New Apple Maps streaming patent could prove useful in travel

Apple received a patent that could provide some new ways of streaming location and mapping to different groups. The idea is basically ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/new-apple-maps-streaming-patent-could-prove-useful-in-travel/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-apple-maps-streaming-patent-could-prove-useful-in-travel

In Transit Blog: A New Look for a Laguna Beach Hotel

The Laguna Beach House in California has been redecorated with a surf and skate theme.

















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4 Easy Tips to Stay Fit While Traveling

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I can attest that it’s far too easy to fall off the exercise wagon while traveling. It seems silly to think about hitting the treadmill or maintaining your curling routine when the Colosseum is right outside your hotel window. Thankfully, a variety of low- and high-tech solutions are available to the modern vagabond. Here are […]

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Even MORE Travel Benefits on Amex, Chase, Citi Cards

It’s no secret that frugal travelers love their credit cards. Through creative spending and other deliberate means of earning points, good card management is part of the way that we amass hundreds of thousands of points and ultimately use them to see the world for little more than a song. However, what many travelers don’t […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2015/03/even-more-travel-benefits-on-amex-chase-citi-cards.html

How well do you know French cuisine?

Enjoying a baguette once in a while does not make you a French cuisine expert! Take our latest quiz and test your knowledge of the best food in the world.



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Q2 2015 Hilton HHonors Hotel Category Changes

As of April 2014, Hilton HHonors has shifted how they make award category changes. Rather than having massive hotel category adjustments every so often, they’re doing quarterly adjustments. That’s to say that they’re not changing the number of points required for each category every quarter, but rather are shifting which hotels belong in which categories.

Ultimately I favor anything which isn’t an award chart massacre like what we saw with HHonors in early 2013, so I guess that's a good thing overall.

Rather than emailing members when there’s a big award chart change, they now have a website where Hilton lists the category changes. That sounds great in theory, except I’m not sure how a vast majority of members are expected to know when these changes happen.

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Germanwings Frequent Fliers Are Undeterred

Flight 4U 9525 crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday, likely killing the 150 people on board.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/former-germanwings-passengers-talk-about-french-alps-flight-safety-4u-9525-plane-1857414

Last Blast: Civil War Swan Song

As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War draws to a close, head to these mid-Atlantic sites. They played a pivotal role in America’s deadliest conflict.



from Intelligent Travel http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/24/last-blast-civil-war-swan-song/

One Accident Per Every 4.4M Flights

A deadly crash in the French Alps on Tuesday is another in a long line of high-profile aviation accidents in the last 15 months — but airline safety overall is actually improving.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/germanwings-crash-after-another-fatal-airline-accident-air-travel-still-safe-1857336

10 signs you grew up drinking in Lou

Only in Louisiana can you drive up to your favorite daiquiri shop, place your order, and drive off with the frozen alcoholic beverage of your choice:



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