News and notes from around the interweb: Sign up your family for Aegean frequent flyer accounts, and pool their signup bonuses to use yourself. Free miles! Aer Lingus has rejected a second, increased takeover offer from British Airways and Iberia parent IAG Minor news for sure, but bmi regional will operate 4 European routes on […]
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When US Airways and America West merged, the airline faced contentious labor integration issues. The pilots in particular never formally got to a new contract with merged senior list. For them, the merger with American Airlines presented a final opportunity not just for increased pay but for finally overcoming the wounds the US Airways and […]
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I receive a ton of emails. Some of them are great questions, some of them are questions that could easily be figured out with two seconds of Googling, and then there are those kinds of questions. This past week a reader sent me the following question:
"Here's a pretty real question (and a killer blog post if you have an answer), anyway for us to join the mile high club without losing respect of all crew members? Haha I'm imagining your face palm right now but... If anyone has a thought it'd be you. I know some of the seats allow two people to open their area into one sort of semi suite or if they have showers I thought that could be an option, albeit a little tough but " we'll make it fit" hahaha, couldn't help myself there."
I'm not sure whether to be flattered or offended at the prospect of someone thinking I'd be the person to have thoughts on it. The good news is that I certainly do have thoughts on it. The bad news is that I have thoughts on it because I'm a germaphobe, and the thought of someone screwing in the seats I'm sitting in is enough to make me barf.
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I was really excited to check out the new Westin Singapore, given that it just opened about a year ago.
I find Singapore to be a hotel market that's well past its prime, so a hotel scores huge points just for being new, in my opinion.
For our one night stay I had the option between paying 580SGD (~465USD) or 16,000 Starpoints for a base room at the Westin. 580SGD for a night is crazy, so I obviously redeemed the Starpoints, a redemption value I was quite happy with. The revenue rate actually made me really curious about the quality of this property, since the price was even higher than the St. Regis the night prior.
We took a taxi from the St. Regis to the Westin, which took about 15 minutes. The Westin is located near the financial district, and is actually in the brand new Asia Square Tower. The hotel uses levels 32 to 46 of the building, which is otherwise occupied by office space. The first thing I noticed is that while the Westin is near the financial district, it's quite removed from everything. The building kind of occupies its own plot of land, so it's a good 10 minute walk until you're in the financial district, or anywhere else for that matter.
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I'm primarily loyal to two hotel chains -- Starwood Preferred Guest and Hyatt Gold Passport. I've had top tier status with both chains for several years now, even before I lived in hotels full time. While neither chain has the global footprint of Hilton, IHG, or Marriott, I find that they have significantly better elite benefits than the competition.
Before I lived in hotels full time it was a real struggle to qualify for top tier status with both chains, though. Each requires 50 nights for top tier status, so that's a 100 nights in hotels, between the two brands.
One awesome perk that comes with both the personal and business co-branded Starwood Amex credit cards is that you get two elite qualifying stays and five elite qualifying nights towards SPG status annually just for having the cards.
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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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Ten years ago, I embarked on the trip that would change my life. It was 2004 and I was trying to convince a friend to visit the Galapagos Islands the following January. He wasn’t sold on the idea and suggested Thailand instead. Since I didn’t care where we went so long as we went somewhere, I agreed. I just wanted to escape the winter. So in January 2005, we set off on our two week trip. If you had told […]
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United MileagePlus was the victim of a data security breach at the end of last month. They’re hardly the first loyalty program to face this. Hilton HHonors members now have to certify that they aren’t robots every time they log into their accounts. This follows Hilton points for sale in large quantities on the DarkNet. […]
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JetBlue is offering double base flight points when you register, book, and fly by March 8, 2015. This is almost exactly the same as the promotion that JetBlue ran last year over the same time period.
The caveat here is that only travel booked after you register qualifies, so previously booked travel through March 8 wouldn't qualify towards the promotion. Furthermore, the bonus base points will only post 4-6 weeks after the end of the promotion period.
JetBlue ordinarily offers three base points per dollar spent, so through this promotion you'd earn six base points per dollar spent. On top of that, you earn an additional three points per dollar spent for reservations made on jetblue.com. That means during the promotion period you earn nine points per dollar spent on tickets at jetblue.com.
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I’ve found that Starwood hotels are the best overall at responding to complaints. If something goes wrong on a stay, an email to Corporate Customer Service (customercare -at- starwoodhotels.com) generally takes care of it. I find that most of the time a meaningful complaint yields points equal to a free night’s stay at a given […]
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WhatsApp revealed last week that it now has more than 700 million monthly users.
It all started last Wednesday when, during an afternoon break from doing some work, I decided to go online and look up random airfares from Bucharest. Always a sucker for the beach, the first destination I looked up was Goa, … Read more →
Following up on my previous two posts:
-- I WANT TO REDEEM MILES FOR THIS FLIGHT SO BAD!
-- Booked On A350 To Position For Qatar Airways A350 Inaugural Flight
I checked in for my flight yesterday.
And was about to head to the airport this morning, when I saw that I had a "schedule change" on my itinerary.
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