Must-read Earlier Installments: Singapore, Cathay, and Qantas First Class.. Some of the Best Meals of My Life, and a Tour of Hyatts in Bangkok, Singapore, and Sydney Inside the New Oneworld Lounge at LAX’s Tom Bradley International TerminalCathay Pacific First Class, Los Angeles – Hong Kong Cathay Pacific “The Wing” First Class Lounge, Hong Kong […]
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Loyal reader Mark P. sends me this note: United extended my 1k status for 2015 due to my “long term commitment to United”. I flew over 126,000 miles, 48 segments, and [had] $7000 in [Premier Qualifying Dollars]. I also had over $25,000 spend on the United [credit card] to qualify for the waiver to get […]
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In some sense there’s no such thing as junk mail, there’s only mail that doesn’t interest you. If it were truly junk, not of interest to anyone, it would even get sent. Which isn’t to say I like the pile of stuff I toss into the recycling every day that there’s mail delivery. But I […]
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There's no denying that North Korea has been on a roll lately. I mean, first they made it to the finals of the most recent World Cup (I'm not actually sure if they ended up winning or not).
And now video has emerged of Kim Jong Un flying an Antonov An-148.
If the whole wanting to be world dictator thing doesn't work out for the munchkin, he has a bright future as an Air Koryo pilot!
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Lucky asks why the cancellation policy on his $90 hotel room would cost him $600. He booked an award night at the Aloft Abu Dhabi for 3000 Starwood points The paid rate for that night would have been ~ US$90++ The charge for cancelling after the deadline to do so wasn’t ‘losing 3000 points’ or […]
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One of the few good things about the new year in our part of the world (given that most elite counters are reset) is that those of us with American Express Platinum cards get a new $200 airline fee credit.
Here are the American Express cards with annual airline fee credits:
-- The Platinum Card® from American Express
-- The Platinum Card® from American Express Exclusively for Mercedes-Benz
-- The Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN
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Delta devalued their award chart multiple times and then announced completely new award charts. With those changes came the hope that they’d finally get their act together with award availability. They announced finally allowing one-way awards at half the price of roundtrip. And they’ve improved the ability of their website to actually find available award […]
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Since November, Hyatt has been offering a 10% discount on the purchase of gift cards. All you have to do is enter promotion code GPGIFT14 at check-out when purchasing the gift cards.
If you stay at Hyatts with any frequency and have the cash, it's an absolute no brainer to pick up as many of these as you can, as a 10% discount is pretty substantial savings.
In late November Hyatt even introduced e-gift cards, whereby you don't even have to pay to have a physical card shipped to you, but rather can just be emailed a code that you have to give at check out. I've used them, and far prefer them to the old physical gift cards.
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Looking back on the year, I thought I’d share what Google Analytics thinks were my most popular posts in 2014. These are the ones clicked on the most, that brought people to the site, rather than the most popular posts that were just read on my View From the Wing home page. That means they’re […]
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