Argentina is in a pretty abysmal financial state at the moment, and it's having quite an impact on the travel industry. Tourism is down, and some airlines are reducing service as a result. There are rumors of even bigger airline service cuts than what we're seeing already.
Amidst the financial turmoil, it looks like the government of Argentina wants more information about passengers flying into and out of the country. Per the Buenos Aires Herald:
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The Department of Transportation is conducting an audit of frequent flyer programs, focused on disclosure of program rules and costs associated with redemptions. The audits are being conducted at the behest of Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL), who wants to protect his 10 million miles. Frequent-flyer programs need more federal oversight, contends a Florida congressman. Representative […]
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There's no denying that while the Airbus A380 is the best plane in the sky in terms of passenger comfort, the Boeing 747-8 is certainly the sexiest.
The 747 will always be the "queen of the skies" for me, and I'm really sad to see so many airlines retiring them. I think many of us grew up flying the 747, and seeing them retired marks the end of an era.
Yes, I may have shed a tear or ten when I watched the Singapore 747-400 retirement video (especially 4:40 in):
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After Hilton’s dramatic award chart gutting of nearly two years ago, there weren’t huge changes again this year. And Hilton decided to change the way they made changes to how they re-assign hotels to award categories. Instead of an annual change to tons of hotels (a schedule they really weren’t wedded to in the past […]
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US Airways almost seems like a premium cabin alliance consolidator at times, given for how many years they've been selling miles at very lucrative rates. Over the past several years there have been more months where they've sold miles with a 100% bonus than not.
Nowadays the cost to purchase US Airways miles is 3.5 cents per mile, plus a 7.5% federal excise tax, for a total of ~3.76 cents per mile. Then they're usually offering a 100% bonus on purchased miles, bringing down the cost per purchased mile to ~1.88 cents.
That's certainly not a rate at which I'd necessarily hoard miles, as the cost to generate miles with US Airways isn't quite as good as it used to be:
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