Southwest Airlines is having a sale, so now might be the time to book your fall travel. Tickets must be purchased before June 13th, 2013, at 11:59 pm for travel August 26th, 2013 through December 18th, 2013. There are some black-out dates and not every route has the sale fares available. This sale is “distance-based”…
Last week, a reader asked me to explain the difference between a layover and a stopover. I don’t think that I did it justice in person, so here’s the full explanation. Layover Simply put, a layover happens any time you switch planes during your journey. Most people use connection and layover interchangeably. Stopover Generally, if…
WMC-TV in Memphis is reporting that Delta Airlines is planning to eliminate its Memphis hub starting in September 3rd: Delta Air Lines is planning to cut the number of daily flights from 96 departures down to 60-64 per day starting September 3. The cuts will affect about 230 jobs. In addition, Memphis International Airport will…
Avis and Flying Blue have teamed up to offer a pretty awesome promotion for anyone planning to rent a car six times before the end of the year. Through the”Avis Accumulator” promotion, you can earn over 50,000 Flying Blue miles after six rentals. Full details are are at the Avis website, but here are the…
It’s Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday! Let’s see what’s up in the frequent flyer blogosphere…. Rapid Travel Chai writes about some expansions to the TSA PreCheck program, including new participation by Virgin America and the Philadelphia airport. Also, it appears that PreCheck is now working on some international itineraries. Cool. Lucky writes about…
Last Thursday, I arrived home to find a postcard in my mailbox advertising a United promotion offering up to 40% off purchased miles until June 20, 2013. At these prices, I wouldn’t purchase tons of United miles speculatively, but if I were topping off my United MileagePlus account with a specific award redemption in mind,…
Just a quick story and reminder that “Free After Rebate” is far from free… I recently applied for an American Airlines credit card which offered a 50,000 mile bonus after spending $2000. In order to meet that spending threshold, I decided that I would order a bunch of free-after-rebate stuff and resell it on Amazon,…
Changes are coming to the US Bank Cash+ card in July. Thanks to reader Eric for the heads-up on a lot of the changes. Starting in July, US Bank will award a $25 bonus for redeeming $100 or more in rewards only once per calendar year. However, all redemptions of $100 or more made prior to July…
The weekend is almost here. Time to see what the other bloggers are up to. I might make links to other blogs a Friday tradition… we’ll see. Lucky notes that Marriott has improved some of their breakfast benefits. Marriott customers might be interested in that. I’ll still stick with Starwood, thankyouverymuch. FrequentMiler has a post…
Have you ever found yourself planning travel and wondering if you are going to be able to stay connected in the airport? Jaunted has an excellent map of airports offering free WiFi. The map covers most of the domestic airports in the United States, as well as most major global hub airports. http://www.jaunted.com/maps/Airport-WiFi-Map
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