In the midst of a pretty standard piece on airline lounges, Bloomberg drops a photo that looks pretty significant -- a new design I don't think we've seen before. (They don't seem to realize what it is that they have..!)
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While Emirates in general is growing at an extremely fast pace, it seems like their US growth lately has been almost unparalleled. Just so far this year:
-- Emirates will be adding a second daily Dubai to Seattle flight as of July 7, 2015
-- Emirates will be adding a Dubai to Orlando flight as of October 1, 2015
-- Emirates will be upgrading their New York to Milan flight to an A380 as of June 1, 2015
-- Emirates added a fourth daily flight to New York as of March 8, 2015
While I get the added capacity to New York, the new Orlando route announcement caught me off guard. The addition of a second daily Dubai to Seattle flight kind of surprised me as well, since that's a route they've only added in the past few years.
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Qantas will be flying four koalas from Brisbane, Australia to Singapore where they will eventually join the Singapore Zoo. On loan from Australia as a symbol of friendship between the two countries, the 6-month gift could become permanent.
Transporting them requires custom-built shipping capsules that are climate-controlled and with a tree and eucalyptus leaves. Qantas, though, says they'll be flying "koala class." And they have photos...
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I've just wrapped up an incredibly relaxing one week vacation in the Maldives. I'm usually not much the relaxing type, but for the first time I can remember I was able to truly unwind, and I'd return in a heartbeat.
The only downside to the trip was that I caught a cold the second day I got there. It must have been my crazy outbound routing, combined with getting virtually no sleep the first night I was in the Maldives.
So I wasn't feeling 100% yesterday when I left due to being in the final stages of a cold, combined with being sunburned and having some bug bites.
After flying from Kooddoo to Male on Maldivian in the last row I was quite looking forward to getting on my Cathay Pacific redeye to Hong Kong, where I'd get a fully flat seat.
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Reader Rick asked, I’d like to know how to hold award flights at the different major airlines and how long you can do so. Haven’t come across an authority post on this… Putting an award on hold is really useful. Award travel can be complicated: With the widespread advent of one-way awards, you may be booking multiple pieces of a trip in sequence, you want to make sure you can put the whole thing together before you’re committed. You may be transferring points from partners like American Express or Starwood and those transfers may not be instantaneous. So you want to secure the award and then transfer points when possible. You may be coordinating with award travel for hotels. Or with awards that other passengers are booking. Fundamentally booking award travel is more complicated than…
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Via Don’t Call the Airline, Air Canada’s Aeroplan frequent flyer program — a Star Alliance program and an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner — has a redemption pricing glitch. If you book a roundtrip award with premium economy one way and business class the other, the award will price as premium economy. Aeroplan’s reward chart for North America – Asia roundtrip is this: Premium economy is 125,000 miles roundtrip. Business Class is 150,000 miles roundtrip. Here’s an itinerary between Canada and Japan, business class one-way and premium economy the other. And it prices at 125,000 miles. The outbound is indeed over the water in Air Canada business class. This is how the award will price: So if you’re ever going to find yourself booking a premium economy award through Aeroplan, consider pricing it with…
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The IHG® Rewards Club Select Credit Card is presently offering an increased sign-up bonus of 70,000 points after spending $1,000 within three months of account opening. The card's annual fee is a low $49, and is waived the first year.
The card has three benefits which make it especially compelling, in my opinion:
-- You get an anniversary free night certificate every year, which is valid at any IHG property worldwide, pending availability; given IHG’s global footprint, that should justify the card for just about anyone, given the annual fee is only $49
-- You get IHG Rewards Club Platinum status for as long as you have the card, which gets you bonus points, room upgrades, etc.
-- You get a 10% rebate on points redemptions, for up to 100,000 points back each year
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