From Southwest’s website: It doesn’t take long to get up to 10,000 feet, so it’s not like Southwest is millions of miles ahead of Gogo. But, since they have ubiquitous satellite Wifi on planes (unlike UA or AA’s and DL’s ground-based wifi) they get…
At least a bit to my surprise, Southwest Airlines has decided to offer TSA PreCheck access to it’s customers. This shouldn’t really be a big announcement since so many other airlines have been offering PreCheck for quite some time. But, Southwest doesn’t exactly have…
This news has been out a day or so now, so you might have already heard that United is matching Southwest’s offer of double points, though with some caveats. This is for new tickets purchased for travel through November 21, 2013. Wandering Aramean points…
Southwest Rapid Rewards and Marriott are teaming up this month to offer bonus points on gift card purchases. Purchase link here. Buying gift cards at a discount (or earning bonus points) is a solid way to save on travel. I remember stocking up…
I stumbled on this one a bit late. Especially since I had a Four Points stay a couple weeks ago and didn’t score the $25 myself. This runs through the end of July, and essentially gives you a $25 discount on a future Southwest…
Southwest announced yesterday that it will begin offering live television free on flights (sponsored by Dish). At first, I thought it was a ho-hum kind of announcement. But, I think there’s a bit more to this announcement, especially in light of my recent thoughts…
Credit cards (and the accompanying sign-up bonuses) have become a big part of most effective strategies for earning points and miles. Just a few days ago I was discussing a great way to pick the low hanging fruit by buying gift cards from office…
The game of collecting miles and points has, like most things in life, easy parts and hard parts. For people just getting started, I like to advise them to focus on the low hanging fruit. For me, that’s usually cards like Chase Sapphire and…
Don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a free Briggs & Riley TORQ suitcase! Southwest started a promo back in February that award double points AND double tier qualifying points through May 15th. It appears they decided to extend it yesterday for another month…
It didn’t take long, but now all the major US carriers have raised the change fee for non-refundable domestic tickets from $150 to $200. United started things off, and Delta, US Airways and American followed shortly thereafter. Some fellow members of the blogosphere are…