In October I shared my single favorite thing about living in hotels. It's not complimentary non-fat cappuccinos and egg white omelets in the morning. It's not never having to make my own bed. It's not massive suites.
Instead it's conventions. There's nothing quite as amusing to me as randomly ending up in the middle of a thousand person special interest convention.
From Hot Wheels Conventions to cheerleading conventions to biker gang conventions, I think I've almost witnessed everything.
The one thing I feel like I haven't yet witnessed is a furry convention. For those of you not familiar with furries, here's a good rundown NBC did:
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Back in May Prince William flew American Airlines coach. It was a bulkhead seat for Memphis – Dallas. This morning he flew first class onboard the US Airways shuttle to get from New York to DC. The ABC News article incorrectly indicates he flew from New York’s JFK airport. The shuttle flight originates at LaGuardia. […]
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As part of their "Going For Great" campaign (a slogan which I find peculiar yet remarkably honest, since American is admitting they're not great), American announced $2 billion in customer improvements over the coming years.
Now, a lot of the stuff in the press release has already been announced and is in the process of being implement. While American has a lot of faults, the transformation they've been going through has been really fun to watch. I remember a few years back when American had 400 MD-80s. To think how far they've come with the 777-300ERs, the new 737s, the A321s on transcons, etc. -- it really is a pretty radical transformation.
What else can we expect from American?
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News and notes from around the interweb: Your fellow passengers are having sex in airports Up to 15,000 United or Aeroplan miles for travel between the US or Canada and Europe Apple has a new credit card with terrible rewards. A Road Warrior’s Gift Guide The bill to limit TSA security fees – intentionally increased […]
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Through February 28, 2015, the Hilton HHonors Surpass Card from American Express is offering an increased 80,000 HHonors points sign-up bonus after you spend $3,000 in purchases within your first three months of card membership. The card has a $75 annual fee, which isn't waived for the first year. This is the highest publicly available sign-up bonus I've ever seen on the card.
What makes this card so valuable is that it offers Hilton HHonors Gold status for as long as you have the card, which gets you free breakfast/lounge access (based on availability) and free internet at Hilton properties. To me those are the two most valuable hotel elite perks. So I do think it's worth having a co-branded Hilton credit card long term.
Hilton's credit card portfolio is especially unique because they have two co-branded credit card issuers -- American Express and Citi. The co-branded Hilton card I have is the Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve Card.
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Think about how frustrating it is to book award tickets to Australia. Now just imagine every trip you plan involving getting to or from Australia. This probably explains why PointsPros receives so many award requests from "down under." ;)
I can appreciate the frustrations many people have with Qantas Frequent Flyer points, which seems to be the general mileage currency many Australians have. In general, non-US loyalty programs tend to be more expensive, harder to navigate, and less of a bargain (i.e. fuel surcharges).
For those with Australian-issued American Express cards that accrue Membership Rewards points, we have much greater success completing bookings. Australian Membership Rewards points transfer to nine airline partners, and while not all are great, I’m especially fond of Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Virgin Australia Velocity. These programs tend to have the award seats clients need to take their trips in a premium cabin.
I’m going to briefly run through each of the Australian AMEX transfer partners with transfer ratios, links to their award charts (if available), and my general thoughts. It is worth mentioning that Australia has a few different Membership Rewards programs -- this is geared towards those in the Ascent or Ascent Premium programs. Ascent Premium members can technically transfer to Qantas Frequent Flyer, but there are likely better options, as I'll explain shortly.
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