United Airlines and Marriott are hooking up to offer reciprocal status, much like Delta and Starwood did earlier this year. Here’s the most important change: Premier Gold, Premier Platinum, Premier 1K, and Global Services members will receive complimentary Marriott Rewards Gold Elite status. Marriott Rewards Platinum Elite and Platinum Premier Elite will receive complimentary MileagePlus…
Lucky points out that American is offering a double miles to Japan promotion. Check out his post for more information. Sadly, it’s only good for travel through August 31, 2013. I was thinking of planning a trip to Japan, but that might be a bit too soon for me.
Minneapolis is my home airport and one of my favorite airports. If you are traveling through the Minneapolis airport and need some peace and quiet or a place to corral the kiddos during your layover, here are two places where you can seek refuge.
For those of you staying in Hilton hotels, Hilton recently announced their third-quarter promotion: Double points for weekday stays and triple points for weekend stays. From their website: Get to your next getaway three times faster with the Hilton HHonors™ Triple Your Trip promotion. Sign up and stay Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights to earn…
Last week Hertz announced a modest devaluation to its loyalty program. You may have missed the email that came out, which contained a bunch of flowery language about responding to customer feedback, etc, but here’s the meat: Beginning October 1, 2013, point redemption levels for Rewards will increase a modest 10–15% in the United States, Canada,…
(This post was supposed to publish last week, but I screwed up and it didn’t get posted. Oops. It’s not too late to sign up, though!) If you carry a credit card that features bonus categories that rotate quarterly, now is the time to sign up to earn your bonuses for July-August. Here’s what’s going…
For most of my American readers, happy forced-vacation-day! 🙂 Here’s what’s been going on in my blogging world lately: Imagine having one credit card that could be instantly reprogrammed to mimic any of your credit cards or loyalty cards. FrequentMiler profiles a venture in Ann Arbor that is creating such a product. Sounds nifty, but…
Sometimes you should just take the effort to make someone’s life a bit more pleasant. Here are a few ideas of ways you can make your airline gate agent’s day: Bring them a can of soda or water from the lounge. Especially on days when flights are delayed and people need to be rebooked, the…
Most business travelers have been there: You’re flying back home on the last flight of the night, you’re making a connection, and your first flight is delayed. You realize that you’re going to miss your connection. Since you’re on the last flight of the night, that means you’re bound to be stranded. What do you…
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