It’s not too late – Deals still alive as of 04/05/2015

Each week we publish a number of fantastic deals on the blog and in Quick Deals. Most deals don’t last long, but some hang around for awhile. In an effort to keep you up to date, we have gone back through each of the deals posted over the last couple of months to let you know which ones are still active. Here are the deals still alive as of April 5, 2015. Through April 5…

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Secret cell phone plans could save you 50 percent — so why are carriers embarrassed by them?

from Elliott http://elliott.org/advice-you-can-take/secret-cell-phone-plans-could-save-you-50-percent-so-why-are-carriers-embarrassed-by-them/

US Airways Credit Card Signup Links, Mutiny on a Plane, Julianne Moore Fired by Airline for Poor Acting

News and notes from around the interweb: 2250 Bonus American Miles from the AAdvantage Shopping Portal Well, that’s one way to protest. Turkish Tourism Minitry Fires Julianne Moore for Bad Acting The government of Sri Lanka is accusing their oneworld member and national airline of corruption. The airline is state-owned, and the accusations stem from aircraft purchases while the government was controlled by a different party which means the airline is a political football in partisan political politics. Which doesn’t mean, of course, that a state owned airline isn’t a politically corrupt plaything, just that the complaints are that the airline used to be someone else’s corrupt plaything. Passenger mutiny: police had to be called twice during a 5 hour Qatar Airways tarmac delay in Birmingham. The US Airways credit card was supposed to disappear…

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Things that happen moving to Egypt

You have no qualms about bribing a traffic cop:



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/11-things-happen-move-egypt/

7 German food myths that need to die

There is a “German cuisine."



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Can I Use Miles to Upgrade an Award Ticket on United?

TPG reader Dave tweeted me to ask: @thepointsguy–”Is it possible to use miles on United to upgrade to first class for a ticket that was booked using miles?” I often get asked this question in one form or another. With pretty much all airlines, if you redeem miles for an award ticket in economy, you...



from The Points Guy http://thepointsguy.com/2015/04/can-i-use-miles-to-upgrade-an-award-ticket-on-united/

Why Does Everyone Keep Trying to Smuggle Gold into Bangladesh?

A Kuwait Airways cabin crew member was arrested on Saturday in Dhaka, Bangladesh for smuggling gold in his body: Eighty two grams of gold jewellery and four gold bars weighing 10 Tola each were recovered from him. (HT: Reid F.) That’s worth about $32,300 at 1.00 BDT to 0.0129175 USD. Perhaps this is money that could have funded the down payment for a new business class seat onboard one of the airline’s Boeing 777s. What’s strange is that there’s a trend of trying to smuggle gold into Bangladesh. And people keep getting caught trying to do it. Just a month ago Bangladesh seized $1.4 million worth of gold from a North Korean diplomat. Moinul told Reuters that the diplomat was passing through the green channel from Dhaka’s international airport – Hazrat Shahjalal International airport –…

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How to piss off someone from China

“Do you really eat dogs?"



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A Lisbon welcome (and an update on the Word Master job)

Kicking off my Lisbon experience with a story about food.

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Reader Success Story: ¡Muy Barato! Hyatt All-Inclusive in Cancun

Over the years, we’ve had many readers share their success stories with us. Folks for whom traveling domestically once a year was a luxury are now traveling the world with just a few credit card sign-up bonuses. And the best part? They are sharing their stories with us and others who benefit from knowing that […]



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Approaching Mos Eisley Spaceport on Tatooine

Yoga with Adriene A few months ago you guys gave me some suggestions for yoga shows on YouTube. Anyway, here’s one of my favorites – Yoga with Adriene. I like her… she’s really chill and doesn’t take it too seriously. She also has a fun 30-days-of-Yoga program that I recommend. Also, she’s from my old […]



from Stuck in Customs http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2015/04/05/approaching-mos-eisley-spaceport-on-tatooine/

Bus companies struggle with service slips and growing pains

from Elliott http://elliott.org/the-navigator/bus-companies-try-to-up-their-service-game/

1 Caver Dead, 2 Rescued In Morocco

Surviving Spanish adventurers are hospitalized after falling "several hundred meters" in an unforgiving environment.



from Travel Feedly http://www.ibtimes.com/missing-spanish-cavers-found-bottom-cliff-morocco-one-dead-two-airlifted-hospital-1869860

6 Discoveries from Near and Far: Volume XL

Things I found on long walks in foreign cities, or perhaps when someone posted them on Twitter.

• 5 Secrets of a Successful Ted Talk — Hint: Being a famous person has little to do with giving a popular talk


• Hacking Weight Loss — What Jeff learned from losing 30 pounds


• 10 Places to Go Before They’re Gone -- Don’t miss Madagascar! I once stopped off in every domestic airport on the island/li>


• Changing Perceptions of Time While Dying (Video) -- A Stanford neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with lung cancer in his mid-30s reflects on the experience


• The Most Aspirational Miles Award -- Use your Virgin miles (a lot of them…) to book travel on Richard Branson’s Necker Island


• Gifts for Highly Productive People -- My choice would be: more iPhone cables. I leave them everywhere!

from The Art of Non-Conformity http://chrisguillebeau.com/6-discoveries-from-near-and-far-volume-xl/

One Simple Upgrade Trick I Just Learned

Mainstream articles on “how to upgrade to first class” are almost uniformly: Dead wrong Laughable At their best they usually offer some variant of: Dress nicely Be a member of the airline’s loyalty program They never explain, of everyone ‘dressed nicely’ (as though this will matter for folks who aren’t airline empoloyees) and who are members of the program, who will get the upgrade if there are seats available and how to increase your chances it’s you. No, just ask isn’t sufficient (although up until last weekend it was necessary to submit a request for a complimentary upgrade on American — so I guess asking was sort of part of it there). Via Miles Remaining comes an article pushing a totally different trick. Naturally it begins with all of the usual claptrap about dressing nicely,…

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