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• Choice Hotels Triple Miles or Points is Southwest Airlines Good Value

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 425
  Choice Hotels has launched their winter promotion for triple points or miles beginning with your second stay for stays with arrival date from December 10, 2009 to February 28, 2010. The promotion gives members 30 points per US$1 on hotel room rate spending. My analysis shows there is good value in using this promotion ...
  10 hours ago

• Frequent fliers turn dollar coins into easy miles

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Business , Airlines , Travel Deals In the why-didnt-I-think-of-this department, The Wall Street Journal wrote earlier this week about a brilliant scam plan that hundreds of frequent fliers undertook to essentially get thousands of frequent flier miles for free. According to the article, people ...
  18 hours ago

• Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 554
  Scott McCartney reveals another government-funded scam for the Wall Street Journal : Enthusiasts of frequent-flier mileage have all kinds of crazy strategies for racking up credits, but few have been as quick and easy as turning coins into miles. At least several hundred mile-junkies discovered that a free ...
  1 day ago

• JetBlue’s new Marshpillow for airline snacking and sleeping (It’s a joke)

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 602
  Today’s travel-industry chutzpah prize goes to JetBlue Airways, an airline that charges its customers for pillows and blankets, yet dares to tease other carriers about the cost and quality of their passenger service.On their Facebook page, the JetBlue people today unveiled “Flyer’s Collection,” a 15-page ...
  2 days ago

• Hotel Loyalty Program Comparative Tables for International Airlines Points-to-Miles Conversion

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 425
  Many people prefer airline miles over hotel points. I understand the value equation when your air miles are used for Business and First Class travel, but I have a hard time seeing the value in exchanging 20,000 Starpoints for 25,000 miles to redeem a domestic economy class airline ticket. When grandma wants to ...
  2 days ago

• Millions of frequent flier miles awarded, courtesy of the U.S. Mint

  
  This Just In — Authority: 557
  Through a "coins for miles" scheme that is apparently perfectly legal, several hundred travelers have been snagging free flights and hotels. The Wall Street Journal s Scott McCartney reports on the scheme in "Miles for Nothing: How the Government Helped Frequent Fliers Make a Mint." Basically, the Mint was ...
  2 days ago

• A Few Days Late, But Far From A Dollar Short

  
  WSJ.com: The Middle Seat Terminal — Authority: 119
  A U.S. government program amounts to free frequent flier miles for people willing to haul coins to a bank.
  2 days ago

• Airline secret societies

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Business , North America , United States , Airlines Theres a special type of membership level, but the airlines dont want you to know about it ... unless youre dropping an easy $50,000 a year on full fare tickets with the same airline. The topic, which comes up from time to time, is in the ...
  3 days ago

• Hotel Points to Airline Miles Conversion Tables Pt. 1- Domestic

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 425
  Here are comparative tables for points-to-miles conversions for Hilton HHonors, Hyatt Gold Passport, IHG Priority Club, Marriott Rewards, and Starwood Preferred Guest with major US and international airline frequent flyer programs. Part 1 is domestic airlines. All the major hotel loyalty programs allow a member ...
  3 days ago

• Are you planning a mileage run? Four reasons to rush to the airport

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines There are only a few weeks left in 2009, and frequent travelers across the country are staring more intently at their mileage statements than Santa does at the naughty/nice list. The stakes are high: miss the elite cutoff, and a year of upgrades, accelerated ...
  4 days ago

• Southwest gains a passenger midflight

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: Business , United States , Airlines , News When a Southwest Airlines flight took off from Chicago Midway Airport today bound for Salt Lake City it had 123 passengers. When it landed, there were 124. The addition joined the flight at 30,000 feet somewhere above Denver. As one of the ...
  5 days ago

• George Clooneys 10 Million Mile Club

  
  Brow Beat — Authority: 130
  In Jason Reitmans Up in the Air —released onFriday—George Clooneys character strives for his ten millionth AmericanAirlines frequent flier mile. Its an accomplishment, he claims, achieved byonly six people, and it comes with serious perks—like a dedicated bookingagent and a titanium frequent flier card. Is ...
  5 days ago

• Top Frequent-flier Promotions To Earn Airline Elite Status

  
  Business Travel Tips — Authority: 420
  In these tough times, to show loyalty to their best customers, many airlines are launching promotions offering frequent-fliers a chance to earn or maintain their airline elite status easier.USA Today listed some among the recent promotions.- For travel through Dec. 15, American, Continental and United are offering ...
  5 days ago

• jetBlue to bring back "All-You-Can-Jet" pass?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 703
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines , Transportation , Budget Travel , News , Travel Deals This year, airline jetBlue allowed a few lucky people to take "frequent flying" to the next level. The carrier offered an " All-You-Can-Jet" pass for 30 days (September 8 to October 8) for one low ...
  5 days ago

• Tis the season to get obsessive about your mileage

  
  This Just In — Authority: 557
  Airline mileage junkies now have a mascot in George Clooney, thanks to his new movie Up in the Air , in which hes in hot pursuit of acquiring 10 million miles. It was a smart month for the movie to come out, as this is the time of year when the clock is ticking for elite members to hit the targets they need to ...
  5 days ago

• Frequent flier: Spend $2,000 and get $5,600 worth in flights

  
  This Just In — Authority: 557
  Stop reading this post now unless you are willing to drop hundreds—or even thousands—of dollars on an absurd purchase in exchange for free upgrades and flights. This info is a risky practice thats aimed at passionate travel geeks only. Frequent flier jedi Chris Guillebeau has today spotlighted an insiders ...
  6 days ago

• End of year checkups – smoke detectors, emergency kits, frequent flier miles…

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 143
  As another year draws to a close, there are several life maintenance activities that should probably be considered if you havent done so already. Replacing batteries in smoke detectors, checking expiration dates on fire extinguishers, and buying new food for earthquake supplies. But while youre taking care of the ...
  6 days ago

• France: Strike closes key museums

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 602
  If you’re heading to France for a vacation, be forewarned: Some of your favorite museums may be shuttered by a labor strike. Or not. It all depends on how negotiations go.On Wednesday, six of the 31 national museums in France were closed to visitors, local newspapers reported. Among them, according to the ...
  1 week ago

• Movie Quest: George Clooney is "Up in the Air"

  
  This Just In — Authority: 557
  George Clooneys latest movie , " Up in the Air ," opens Friday in a dozen cities before a nationwide release on Christmas Day. [+] Enlarge photo George Clooney stars as road warrior Ryan Bingham, who schools a newbie (Anna Kendrick) on the art of packing (Dale Robinette. Courtesy Up In the Air ) Armed with ...
  1 week ago

• The Secrets to Getting into Uniteds Global Services Program Revealed

  
  Pause — Authority: 109
  Funny how some P&M (pissing and moaning) gets you traffic. Soon after writing about my United Airlines encounter , when I was told by a UA employee the criteria for getting Global Services status on UA were unknown to him, Ive received a whole lotta support from readers, helping me to find out. What surprised ...
  1 week ago

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