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Friday, June 1, 2018

Redeem Just 11,000 Miles to Europe - Book in June for August/September Travel and more...

You can fly Chicago to Europe for 11,000 miles each way. That's coach, but it's still a great deal since fuel surcharges are modest on economy awards. That really stretches the miles. San Francisco awards are available too. American Express, Chase, and ...

Redeem Just 11,000 Miles to Europe – Book in June for August/September Travel and more...


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Redeem Just 11,000 Miles to Europe – Book in June for August/September Travel

You can fly Chicago to Europe for 11,000 miles each way. That's coach, but it's still a great deal since fuel surcharges are modest on economy awards. That really stretches the miles. San Francisco awards are available too.

American Express, Chase, and Citibank points all transfer to Flying Blue.

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New Hyatt Promotion for Grand and Regency Brands: 2500 Points Every 5 Nights

Hyatt is offering 2500 points every 5 qualifying nights at Grand Hyatt and Hyatt Regency hotels starting today through checkouts August 31. That's not very strong.

Hotels are full and room rates are up, the effect of last year's hurricane season notwithstanding we should hit all time records for 2018. And that's why hotel marketing programs aren't spending a lot to put heads in beds -- there aren't many empty beds out there to start with.

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Hyatt Changes How Suite Upgrades Expire, Here’s How to Really Fix World of Hyatt

Hyatt is extending the validity of the suite upgrade awards members already have through February 28. The same applies for the four club lounge access awards given to Explorists each year.

Over the last six months Hyatt has been fixing some of the pain points in their new program. At the end of 2018 they announced free night awards for achieving status would last 180 days instead of 120, and award nights would count towards status.

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Marriott’s New Program Drives Down Costs: Platinum Check-in Amenity Reduction

Marriott's program is about cost savings for hotels. CEO Arne Sorenson touted this in the chain's earnings call earlier this year, noting that "loyalty rates have been reduced [to hotels] already twice and they will be reduced a third time" and several changes are helping the chain drive down those costs.

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Redeemed British Airways Awards 2006-2013? Get Some of Your Fuel Surcharges Back or Free Points

If you paid British Airways fuel surcharges between November 9, 2006 and April 17, 2013 you should get points deposited into your account -- without doing anything at all -- or if you prefer (and fill out a simple form) 16.9% of your cash back.

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Passengers Leap Out of 737 Through Emergency Exits When Man Says He Has a Bomb

A passenger joked about a bomb and everyone started leaping out of the plane through the emergency exits on Monday. And 10 passengers were injured, some hurt "after falling through the plane's engine."

Here's video of the spontaneous evacuation with passengers jumping off the aircraft. Flight crew did not instruct passengers to leave the aircraft.

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United Wants to Return to New York JFK — And Doesn’t Know How to Do It

United pulled out of New York JFK entirely in fall 2015. A year ago the airline's President Scott Kirby said that was a mistake. Now he wants to return to New York JFK and doesn't know how to do it.

When the airline left JFK it was because bean counters looked only at revenue and expense for the those particular JFK flights and missed the bigger revenue picture -- lucrative corporate contracts which made other routes profitable, and which they lost without the JFK service.

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New Class Action Lawsuit Over AA.com Airfare Pricing

The plaintiff would like you to think of this case as picking a pack of gum up from the store shelf, getting to the register, and being asked for more money than the posted sign.

I think of this more as showing the clerk at the register the list of what you want to buy, including an auto-generated price estimate, and the clerk goes in the back and checks and says they're all out of the limited inventory of discounted product but they're still willing to sell it to you at regular price.

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Airbnb IPO and Pay Child Support to Travel Internationally

A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.

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