My Hairbrained Scheme to ‘Commute’ Between Austin and Dallas, and the Two Key Lessons it Taught Me

I'm at Frequent Traveler University by the Dallas airport (at the Hyatt Regency DFW).

And since I'm living in Austin now I decided, why not just commute?

Flights go for as little as $64 each way as long as you're buying them in advance when flights aren't full and it isn't an event week(end). That meant I could fly from Austin to Dallas and back for less than the cost of a hotel night at the group rate...

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Is Marriage The Solution To Pilot Suicide?

It looks like Turkish Airlines' CEO has a possible solution to pilot suicide, in the aftermath of Germanwings first offices Andreas Lubitz downing an A320 in the French Alps. Via CBS News:

"Turkish Airlines' CEO has one possible solution to avoid another case like last month's Germanwings crash: have pilots get married.

At an event Thursday, Temel Kotil told new Turkish Airlines pilots that the incident showed how critical their roles are."

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Getting excited about the big photoadventure here in Queenstown this week!

Upcoming Events I’m really looking forward to our big event that starts this week! It’s all sold out, but we do have some future ones coming, including a combo yoga/photography adventure here in New Zealand as well as an unannounced Venice one… but watch The Events Page here to see what is coming up soon! […]



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Take a look at the other side – I dare you!

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Has Southwest Figured Out the Perfect Way to Stick it to their Members?

Find out what the latest Southwest devaluation means for your points.

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Apartments Vs. Hotels in Madrid (And Elsewhere)

While Ben, and many of his readers, are preparing for (in some cases, multiple) trips to Beijing from Washington in American Airlines business class thanks to that now-famous mistake fare, I suspect I'm not the only one among you who purchased tickets from LAX (or other West Coast gateways) to Madrid as a result of the great SkyTeam Fare War Sale of 2014.

I'd never been to Madrid before, so I was excited to spend a few days in a city known for its food, culture and history. I was traveling with a friend of mine, and when we initially looked into our hotel options, we noticed that some of the best options out there lacked rooms with two beds, and those hotels that did have twin beds (and I mean twin beds -- rooms with two queen beds in Europe are rarer than, say, taste and understatement are in Dubai) were disproportionately expensive.

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You know you're an Anchorage local

You think moose are extra-large, dumb cows that like to walk through town on occasion:



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New app lets you “freeze” your credit card

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Federal Air Marshall With Ties to the Corleone Family Leaves Loaded Gun in Airport Bathroom

An air marshall left a loaded gun in a Newark airport bathroom. We already know that air marshalls schedule their work assignments to facilitate vacations and sexual trysts, and are insufficiently trained to do much even if something did happen on their watch. But this isn’t good. A federal air marshal left his loaded gun in a bathroom stall at Newark Liberty International Airport, then boarded a flight he was assigned to protect without it, NJ Advance Media has learned. The incident occurred late last month, when the marshal left the handgun on top of a toilet paper dispenser in the public men’s room near Checkpoint 2 in Terminal C (HT: Brian Sumer)

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Update On Singapore Suites Class Award Availability Out Of The US

Singapore Airlines Suites Class is one of the most aspirational first class products out there. It remains one of only two airlines with double bed in first class (the other is China Eastern on their new 777s).

For the past several years it has been possible to redeem Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles for travel in Suites Class, which is one of my favorite uses of points out there. However, there's no denying that over time Suites Class award availability has become considerably worse.

In particular, for the past six months or so there has been virtually no Suites Class award availability in advance. Within a month or so of departure we've seen some space, but outside of that we haven't seen much space at all. The good news is that Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer lets you waitlist awards, and they do clear with some regularity.

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Gone from California too long

You can’t even remember what In-n-Out tastes like:



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Big in Japan: The $100 Startup Is Now in Manga!

I haven’t spent nearly enough time in Japan, but we have a great community there and I hope to visit more often in the future. When the local version of The $100 Startup came out two years ago, it was a mega-bestseller, selling 100,000 copies in a short period of time. I went over for…



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Warning! Check scams rely on victims’ trust and desperation

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I’m Now Assuming The Dubai First Class Mistake Fare Will Be Honored

Last Thursday I wrote about the amazing first class mistake fare which British Airways published between Dubai and Austin.

British Airways basically left off a zero (or placed the decimal one digit off, depending on how you look at it), and published their one-way first class fare between Dubai and Austin as ~$857 rather than $8,577. The fare was bookable on quite a few carriers, including Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways, etc.

I booked one of these fares on a pretty cool routing, which I'm excited about.

Once the fare was pulled, the first question many people had was whether or not it would be honored. Obviously people are keen to find out, since it's only natural to want to book positioning flights and hotels for Dubai.

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Here’s How the New IHG Share Promo Will Work

IHG Rewards Club is about to launch their next promotion and it's more lucrative than things first appeared. It sounded complicated with earning and gifting but truth is you can gift to yourself and double your earnings. This is how it will work.

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