How do I recover my expired miles and points?

from Elliott http://elliott.org/live-2/recover-expired-miles-points/

On the Road: Business Travel, Budget Airlines and Seats That Don’t Recline

As tensions over cramped conditions flare on planes, seats that do not recline may begin to show a certain appeal.

















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Redeem Starpoints For Suites Or Premium Rooms

It's interesting to see the policies different hotel loyalty programs have towards redeeming points for premium rooms and suites.

For example, Hyatt Gold Passport is one of the more favorable loyalty programs for award redemptions in suites. They charge an extra ~50% points for suites over standard rooms, with the restriction that you have to redeem for at least three nights.

Given that on revenue rates suites can often be exponentially more expensive than standard rooms, that can be a great value.

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In Search of Sustainable Travel

In the 1980s, ecotourism—driven by a deep conservation and environmental ethic—focused on remote jungle lodges, nature treks, and the like. It was well-meaning and maybe appropriate to the time, but dwelled on the fringes of a largely uninterested mainstream travel industry. At Traveler we observed this and felt a broader approach, around sustainable tourism, would…



from Intelligent Travel http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2014/09/01/in-search-of-sustainable-travel/

3000 Mile First-Time Hotel Booking Bonus Extended Through October 10

Rocketmiles is a hotel booking site with a limited number of hotels and in a limited – but growing – number of cities. It rebates you a potentially large number of miles for your reservations. (You generally won’t earn hotel points for your stays booked through the site.) You get to choose whose miles you […]

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The Perfect Travel Guide That Doesn’t Exist

Wandering Earl

Wouldn’t it be brilliant if there was one definitive, perfect travel guide full of specific instructions that, when followed step-by-step by anyone on the planet, magically guarantees that we will be out there traveling the world long-term in no time … Read more →

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American AAdvantage Discount On Shared Miles

Through September 30, 2014, American AAdvantage is offering up to a 35% bonus on shared miles. I'm writing about this simply to explain why in almost all cases it's not worth taking advantage of.

Sharing miles is basically an opportunity to transfer miles from one account to another, which can be useful if you don't quite have enough miles for an award ticket in one account, but have a second account with extra miles you could use to "top off" the account.

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THacking in China: iBeacon tracking, gesture control, route optimization, SMS itinerary manager and more

THack China, Tnooz’s first ever hackathon in the counry, attracted over 100 developers to build 23 working products based on mobile, social ...



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Redeem Aeromexico Kilometers For Flights On Northwest!

If you're a big of the red tail and still reminisce about "the good old days," you can wipe those teardrops off your guitar!

Just collect Aeromexico Club Premier Kilometers instead, and you'll be flying them before you know it (though a Saturday night minimum stay is required).

Who knew Aeromexico had such unique award redemption options:

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Delta Against Its Customers: No Longer Permits Expertflyer Access to Inventory, Seat Maps, Fares, or Even Flight Status

Delta has forced Expertflyer to remove access to all of its data from the website. As of today, Delta has requested that we no longer offer to you any information on ExpertFlyer pertaining to Delta. Since our inception almost 10 years ago we have accessed Delta information through a GDS where they publish information for […]

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25 picturesque US mountains

We’ve curated a gallery of some of the most photogenic mountains in the US.



from Matador NetworkMatador Network http://matadornetwork.com/trips/25-americas-picturesque-mountains/

ExpertFlyer Pulls All Delta Information

As I explained a couple of weeks ago, ExpertFlyer is one of the travel tool subscription services I pay for, given that it saves me a ton of time and does display some information which isn’t otherwise readily available online.

Over the past couple of years they’ve certainly fought their fair share of battles with airlines over which space they can and can’t display. ExpertFlyer is a great service and makes life easier for the frequent traveler, but in many cases that’s not something the airlines like. For example, if you can set alerts whereby ExpertFlyer emails you when award or upgrade space opens up, the airlines aren’t a fan of that for obvious reasons. While they create the rewards systems, they don’t want to make them easy for us to use. For example, late last year they stopped displaying most Star Alliance award space, as well as British Airways award space.

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The guessing game that surrounds online travel

These are tough but exciting times for the online travel industry but do you have what it takes to forecast the future? ...



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Wearable technology – not particularly cool for normal people

SYSTEMS: Wearable technology has a problem. As much as its champions and manufacturers try to evangelise, it just isn’t particularly cool at ...



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Account Balances Show Disparity Between Airline Miles and Hotel Points

About twice a year I do an inventory of our miles and points to look at my strengths and weaknesses in coverage. The last look shows my continuing problem acquiring hotel points. At present we have 1,340,000 airline miles and only 300,000 hotel points. In addition, we have 240,000 uncommitted points between Chase Ultimate Rewards, […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/09/account-balances-show-disparity-between-airline-miles-and-hotel-points-2.html