Unless you’ve been fortunate enough to earn lifetime status with your favorite airline or hotel chain, keeping those benefits that you value so highly is a yearly requirement. Virtually every loyalty program you’ll come across recognizes your achievements over a calendar year and offers…
Sounds like it was a busy day at Payne Field in Seattle last week. Boeing announced they delivered a total of seven 787s in 25 hours. Considering there’s still less then 50 of them flying, that’s a pretty impressive stretch. Boeing has had tons…
Courtesy of Mommy Points this morning, Travelocity’s Canadian website is offering a $300 discount on packages of $750 or more. As Mommy Points notes, I’m not sure who the code is/was intended for, so there’s some risk this doesn’t work. Though, based on past…
This was one of my busier years in the air. I keep track of my flights using a program called Flight Memory. I’m pretty sure I got the majority of my flight but I might have missed one or two. Some year-end factoids: 150,000…
Starwood Preferred Guest has released it’s year-end summary of fun facts about how members interacted with their program in 2012. I remember them doing this last year, but I don’t remember some of the number being quite so eye-popping. The top-earning member from hotel…
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Things are in full swing for the first hotel promotions of 2013. Once again, the important take away here is to register for all the promos even if you don’t think you’ll patronize a specific chain during the promo period. Plans change frequently and…
During our recent trip on StarMegaDO4, our trip started out at LAX with a flight from LAX to Frankfurt on Lufthansa. While I’ve flown in an out of LAX dozens of times I don’t recall ever having an international departure out of Tom Bradley. …
United has announced a handful of new domestic and international routes. By hub, here are the new routes: Washington Dulles: Guatemala City, Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica Vancouver Grand Rapids, MI Chicago: San Jose, Costa Rica Fairbanks, Alaska Newark: Edmonton Denver: Fort MacMurray,…
Scott McCartney has a good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal about people spending money to achieve status, either by taking flights they don’t need to take or “buying up”. No question, I’m a status snob. But, status is more then just a seat…