Since the elimination of award charts from Delta’s website, I’ve been saying that: We won’t know when the airline devalues, since we don’t have an official benchmark to compare pricing to It’s a step towards a revenue-based program, where awards are priced dynamically based on the cost of a ticket at any given time. I’ve […]
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I just had a call with a Forbes writer in Beirut. She asked for time to talk before we changed our clocks in the U.S. I did get the agreed-upon time right in my calendar, but it took a few minutes to figure it out for sure. It didn’t help that I was in one […]
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I've written in the past about the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card, which I'd argue is the single most compelling hotel credit card to keep long term. Readership on the blog is constantly growing, and I know a lot of people might not be familiar with what makes this card so awesome, so I figured I'd share.
First of all, the IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card comes with a 70,000 point sign-up bonus after spending $1,000 within three months of account opening, provided you haven't received the bonus in the past 24 months. The annual fee on the card is $49, though it's waived the first year.
With that in mind, here are five things that make this card especially awesome:
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IHG Rewards Club has announced that they'll offer a flash sale on their two InterContinental Alliance Resorts in Las Vegas tomorrow. Through this flash sale they'll offer 50% off IHG Rewards Club redemptions at The Venetian and The Palazzo.
The basic details of the promotion are as follows:
-- Valid for 24 hours, starting at 12PM ET, Tuesday, March 10, 2015
-- Valid for stays between March 10 and December 28, 2015
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Delta has announced several changes that appear at first blush on net positive, although they appear worded to sound better than they are and despite making proactive announcements Delta still fails to explain changes in award availability to restrict most domestic markets to 21 advance purchase for saver awards and changes in terms and conditions […]
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Okay, when a frequent flyer program announces "updates" in this day and age it's almost uniformly negative. And that's especially true for Delta SkyMiles, which is quite possibly the biggest "innovator" when it comes to airline loyalty program.
Anyway, Delta announced some updates to the 2015 SkyMiles program. The updates are minor, and in many cases they're not even "updates" since they're just rehashing what has already been done. That being said, they are worth covering, in my opinion.
Here they are, in no particular order:
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Cathay Pacific offers a reverse herringbone seat in their longhaul business class cabin, which is my favorite business class product out there. Even though they've had it for years now, it's still a cutting edge product, in my opinion.
The great thing about reverse herringbone seats is that they're in a 1-2-1 configuration, so each seat has direct aisle access and a lot of privacy. In a way, it's very similar to the "last generation" first class suites offered by many airlines.
Cathay Pacific will be among the first airlines to take delivery of the Airbus A350, as they have a total of 46 on order, including 20 A350-900s and 26 A350-1000s (what happened to the days where they started numbering aircraft series with -100?!).
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News and notes from around the interweb: What an Uber Driver Needs to Do to Maintain Good Ratings The tourists arrested for taking naked photos inside Cambodian temples have apparently inspired two California women who scratched their initials into the Colosseum in Rome. 5 Travel Rewards Cards You Don’t Want to Have (my piece for […]
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I get asked a lot about hotels in the UAE, in particular in Dubai. Out of habit I've often stayed at the Park Hyatt Dubai, which I like for a few reasons:
-- It's really close to the airport, so is great for a quick overnight
-- It's a bit removed from the city, so really feels more like a secluded resort than a city hotel
-- As is the case with most Park Hyatts, service is a bit more personalized and intimate than at a mega hotel
I recently stayed at the Grand Hyatt Dubai for the first time, and figured I'd write a brief comparison between the two properties, prior to writing my full review. The funny thing is that I get reader feedback all the time from people that both love and hate both properties, so I figured it would help to kind of set expectations properly.
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Years ago, the website Earth Porm reposted my article “The Ultimate Guide to Traveling When You’re Broke,” and in January, social media maven and actor George Takei shared the post with his eight million Facebook fans (as a huge Star Trek geek and Sci-Fi nerd, I did jump up and down a bit with joy). As I went through the comments on George’s Facebook post, I was shocked and saddened by the mean, and dismissive comments as well as by […]
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Airlines Try to Balance the Number of Elite Flyers With Airline Capacity Back in November I explained how frequent flyer programs manage their elite levels. “Too many elites” is a problem when a program can’t deliver benefits. On the other hand, when elite ranks shrink (usually during bad economic times although also when an airline […]
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American has been flying their new Airbus A321s between New York and Los Angeles since last January, and suffice to say it's a really nice product. American previously operated 767-200s on the route. While widebodies are nice, the planes were old and the hard product was outdated.
It's interesting that American went for a premium configuration, which includes 10 first class seats, all of which have direct aisle access. This came at the same time that United was eliminating first class from their transcon routes, making American the only carrier to offer three cabin service between New York and Los Angeles.
I reviewed American's A321 first class shortly after it commenced service on the route last year, so was curious to see how the product was holding up.
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One of my favorite American AAdvantage airline partners is Etihad Airways. While they’re not part of oneworld, they are an AAdvantage airline partner, and they’ve been great about making all saver level award space available through American. Searching Etihad award space directly through Etihad’s website is quite straightforward, and once you’ve found “GuestSeat” availability you…
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Last month I wrote about new hotel booking site Kaligo. They’re similar to Rocketmiles and PointsHound in that they kick you back airline miles when you book hotels through their system. At the time they offered readers 1000 extra bonus miles with first booking. Plenty of readers took them up on the bonus. (For avoidance […]
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