As the sun rises in Asheville, North Carolina, it is day 12 of my cross-country tour to promote my new book, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day. This is my seventh stop and I’m having an amazing driving around the U.S., meeting other travelers, spreading the gospel of budget travel, and sightseeing my own backyard. Since the book release a few weeks ago, a lot has been happening and I wanted to share some of highlights and […]
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Over the past couple of years we've seen Delta and United both switch to at least somewhat revenue based frequent flyer programs. Delta and United both:
-- Require you to spend a certain amount of money to get status
-- Award redeemable miles based on how much you spend as opposed to how much you fly
-- Still award elite qualifying miles based on how much you fly
In other words, to be rewarded you can't just spend a lot or fly a lot. You have to do both. And that's fair enough...
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The Alec Baldwin story comes to us from the New York Daily News so it’s a bit hyperbolic. The lead is that Baldwin “was bumped to coach on a red-eye home from Sundance” although reading the story he appears to have had a first class ticket but he changed flights onto one without any first […]
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