United Copies American This Time With Big Premium Cabin Mileage Bonuses as a Stopgap Until They Go Revenue-Based

United is copying Delta’s revenue-based mileage earning for flights that started January 1, but it’s taking MileagePlus until March 1 to get it up and running. In the meantime, American isn’t going revenue-based. They’re keeping the principle that one mile equals one miles. Instead they’re competing for high revenue passengers by giving those flyers a […]

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Accor Hotels: How it is adapting to mobile

Last October, Accor Hotels unveiled its five-year, 225 million euro plan for “reinventing the customer experience through technology.” (See Tnooz’s coverage.) For ...



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Easy 50,000 American Miles With CitiBusiness AAdvantage MasterCard

The CitiBusiness® / AAdvantage® Platinum Select® World MasterCard® offers 50,000 AAdvantage miles after spending $3,000 within three months with a $95 annual fee, which is waived the first year. It's tough to beat a card with an annual fee that's waived the first year, big sign-up bonus, and reasonable minimum spend.

I value American miles at ~1.8 cents each, so you're getting about $900 worth of miles with the sign-up bonus alone.

The sign-up bonus is what makes this card particularly compelling, but there are some additional perks to be aware of as well.

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What your Uber driver thinks of you

“I really DON’T want to know what you’re going to do to her tonight...”



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/uber-driver-really-thinks/

How to turn a “credit” offer into cash

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Why sailors make the best travelers

Sailors make the best travelers - thoughts?



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/20-reasons-sailors-best-people-travel/

What is the best language to learn?

If you could only learn one foreign language, which would it be?



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/best-language-learn/

To the end of the world in Sri Lanka

"To see the end of the world, you need to get up early."



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/trips/end-world-sri-lanka/

Citibank’s Huge 100,000 Mile Offer for 2 Credit Card Signups

I receive compensation for many links on this blog. You don’t have to use these links, but I am grateful to you if you do. American Express, Citibank, Chase, and other banks are advertising partners of this site. I do not write about all credit cards that are available — instead focusing on miles, points, […]

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I WANT TO REDEEM MILES FOR THIS FLIGHT SO BAD!

OMG someone get me on this flight please!!!

I'm presently slowly enroute to the Middle East in order to catch Qatar Airways' inaugural A350 flight from Doha to Frankfurt on January 15.

I had the opportunity to fly the Qatar Airways A350 for a 45 minute media flight during their delivery ceremony in Toulouse a couple of weeks ago, and I'm excited to try it in commercial service.

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Marketing watch: Digital marketing trends for 2015 [INFOGRAPHIC]

The new year begins well-intentioned on the marketing front. Marketing plans, heavily crafted and finessed late in 2014, begin to be implemented ...



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What Is Hidden City Ticketing?

The big airline industry news of the past week or so has been about the 22 year old founder of the website Skiplagged, who is being sued by United and Orbitz. Among other things, his website helped people take advantage of hidden city ticketing.

There's no denying that airlines have made revenue and inventory management such a complex art that it's virtually incomprehensible to the average consumer. That's because the airlines want to squeeze every possible cent out of consumers based on what they perceive their willingness to pay is. This is why we have things like minimum stay requirements, advance purchase requirements, day of the week requirements, different fares based on whether you're traveling nonstop or connecting, etc.

Using a combination of all these things, the airlines feel like they can not only figure out who's a business traveler and who's a leisure traveler, but also how much each person within those groups is willing to pay.

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American Airlines and US Airways Up To 50% Buy Miles Bonus

As they get closer to merging by taking steps like letting customers link their frequent flyer accounts, American Airlines and US Airways have come out with a new promotion on purchased miles where buyers can get up to a 50% bonus now through January 30, 2015. Similar to their most recent joint buy miles bonus […]



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The Worst Credit Card in the World, How to Cheat Uber, and Get Great Awards Out of Delta

News and notes from around the interweb: The absolute worst credit card has a new contender, although I think that First Premier still holds on to the title. Ways that passengers are cheating Uber There’s been really good partner award availability using Delta miles First class is worth it. I think the author conflates domestic […]

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Uber points at media as it clarifies China ban confusion

Uber has issued a statement in response to “some misunderstanding among international media” which led to a number of reports saying that ...



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