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• Google gives free Wi-Fi to holiday travelers at dozens of U.S. airports

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  Got Wi-Fi? You do now. In the spirit of giving, Google announced  today, Nov. 10,  that it is offering free Wi-Fi at more then 40 airports across the country during the holiday season.Southern Californians will be pleased to hear that Bob Hope Airport (BUR) in Burbank and San Diego International Airport (SAN) are ...
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• 8 Killer iPhone Applications

  
  Best New Cell Phones — Authority: 436
  Perhaps the hottest phone on the planet at this point in time, the Apple iPhone has a remarkable number of applications that can be downloaded and added. From games to keep a toddler busy, a gift for any multitasking mom, to bookkeeping that makes keeping business expenses straight, you can find anything your heart ...
  1 day ago

• JetBlue revamps its rewards program

  
  This Just In — Authority: 557
  On Monday, low-cost carrier JetBlue updates its rewards program. JetBlue used to award TrueBlue points based on length of flight. Once you reached a point total, you received free flights. Now, its a bit more complicated. Get six points per dollar spent on your flight booked on Jetblue.com . It takes 10,000 ...
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• Phoenix airport luggage thefts: 10 tips to protect your bag and belongings

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  Worried about your bag getting stolen in baggage claim? You’ve got plenty of company, especially since the news broke this week about police arresting a suburban Phoenix couple on suspicion of stealing nearly 1,000 bags from carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX).Nearly 60% of 1,830 people who ...
  2 days ago

• Start your Christmas shopping now and save your miles

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  By now we’ve all heard the stories. Or maybe it’s happened to you. What seems like a short time without flying, a little carelessness — and poof! — hard-earned frequent flier miles just disappear.And yes, the airlines do publish how long a period of activity is allowed before miles expire, usually about 18 ...
  5 days ago

• Phoenix airport luggage thefts: Did you lose a bag? [Updated]

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  Take a look at the photo above. Recognize your bag?  If so, you may be one of possibly hundreds of passengers whose luggage may have been stolen off carousels at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) in Arizona.Police are asking travelers who think they might have been victimized to call the property crimes ...
  5 days ago

• Mark in today’s New York Times Frequent Flier column

  
  Unconventional Thinking — Authority: 108
  Check out Mark Stevens in today’s New York Times Frequent Flier column: You Can’t Judge a Seatmate by His Foot-Stomping Published: November 2, 2009 “I LOVE flying. Maybe that’s because I go into it with the expectation that I’m going to be delayed. Once I get through security, I go to the bar, ask for a ...
  6 days ago

• Frequent Flyers Spend Quality Time With Airlines

  
  WSJ.com: The Middle Seat Terminal — Authority: 120
  If you spend your life traveling for your job, does a week of visiting airlines in the U.S. and Europe really sound like fun? It does to a small group of road warriors who collectively hold more than 24 million frequent flyer miles.
  1 week ago

• Buy Starwood Points at 20% off Nov 10-Dec 31

  
  Loyalty Traveler — Authority: 498
  Starwood points may be purchased for $14.00 per 500 points ($28/1,000 points) up to the 20,000 points calendar year limit from November 10 to December 31, 2009. This is a 20% discount on the regular purchase price for Starpoints at $35 per 1,000 points. The sale price is not yet posted on the SPG website. Starwood ...
  1 week ago

• Five nonsmokers’ paradises: a guide for globe-trotters

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  The world’s biggest tobacco-consuming countries that I profiled in my last post, including Greece, Russia and Austria, are also among the top travel spots, but the opposite isn’t quite the case.Countries with the lowest reported adult smokers, as you’ll notice in the list below, don’t all provide dream ...
  1 week ago

• United breaks guitars…and loses bags too: The saga continues

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  Dave Carroll, the Canadian musician who won worldwide fame by composing a song and video about the demise of his guitar at the hands of United Airlines, found himself in that airline’s clutches again the other day, on the way to a speaking engagement about customer service. And guess what happened?United lost his ...
  1 week ago

• Pick your upgrade poison, frequent fliers: higher fares or co-pays?

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  One of the most sought after benefits for frequent fliers is not free tickets, but the chance to escape the cattle car in the back, and sit up in business or first class with an upgrade.
  1 week ago

• Lowest airfares in 11 years? OK, but what about fees?

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  On the heels of an airfare war comes this report from the U.S. Department of Transportation: We’re paying the cheapest fares in 11 years. Of course, that accounting doesn’t include all the extra charges for checked luggage, seat selection and even blankets and pillows that carriers have piled on in recent ...
  1 week ago

• Who ‘Owns’ Your Frequent Flyer Miles? Not You.

  
  WSJ.com: The Middle Seat Terminal — Authority: 120
  Once you own an asset, it’s yours - unless were talking about frequent-flier miles. If you don’t live up to loyalty program rules, airlines will cancel the account and take back all your hard-flown, hard-earned rewards.
  1 week ago

• In Defense of a Good Nights Sleep

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Its so tempting to cut back on sleep when you cant figure out how to make it all fit. Many of us have an irregular sleep cycle, staying up and sleeping in some days, and trying to rise before the first respectable glimmer of dawn the next day. But a new study presented at the 2009 meeting of the Society for ...
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• What we’re watching: George Clooney on FF miles, million-milers talk, notebook operating instructions

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  Enjoy these videos about a fictional frequent flier who is striving to reach a milestone more rare than walking on the moon. Then spend time with million-mile madmen who collect frequent flier miles as a hobby. Finally, our own Christopher Elliott provides lessons on how use a notebook, yes, a notebook.
  1 week ago

• Frequent flier partners change — Continental swings to Star Alliance

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 142
  It hasn’t been front page news, certainly compared to the wayward Northwest-Delta pilots, but Continental is dropping their partnership with Delta and Skyteam. They have joined with United and USAir in the Star Alliance. Now, the ramifications of that change are becoming a frequent flier reality.There are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Frequent fliers rate LAX the third-worst airport in the world

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  Turns out that a $1-billion overhaul of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) (Bradley Terminal, above) can’t come too soon for 14,526 frequent fliers, who rated it the third-worst airport in the world in a just-released survey. The most hated airport? London’s giant Heathrow (LHR), followed by Paris’ Charles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Priceline gives weekly updates on Thanksgiving and Christmas air travel

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  If you are still waiting for a good deal to book your holiday travel, we suggest you tune into Priceline’s travel blog. Brian Ek is giving a weekly update on flight costs for travel around Thanksgiving and Christmas.Earlier this month we talked with Ek about holiday airfare prices and concluded that if you had to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The LAX list: 10 airport improvements I’d like to see

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 618
  So the commissioners who run Los Angeles International Airport look as if they’re about to spend a billion dollars to make the airport a better place, especially for international travelers. They’ll get no complaints from me about that. In fact, I’m here to help.Here are 10 improvements I’d like to see ...
  3 weeks ago

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