“In general, frequent flyer miles are like Beanie Babies: they only get less valuable over time.” – Detroit Free Press Travel Writer Ellen Creager Continue Reading
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Award Watch – April, 17 2014
IHG PointBreaks IHG Rewards has announced their latest PointBreaks awards. PointBreaks offer a bargain hotel night stay for 5,000 points per night. The current list of discounted awards are valid through… Continue Reading
Le Club Accor Hotels
LE CLUB FACEBOOK Le Club Accorhotels offers their loyalty club members the ability to earn bonus points each time they “check-in” to a hotel using the Facebook Places application. The Le Club… Continue Reading
Delta Releases New Award Chart
When Delta SkyMiles recently announced changes to their program effective Jan. 1, 2015, they stated that new award charts would be coming in the fourth quarter of 2014, with information on new redemption… Continue Reading
Seeing the World in Hotel Tiers
2014 hotel award category reassignments give insight to the global state of the hotel industry. Nine major hotel loyalty programs use hotel award categories to set the cost of one hotel award night using… Continue Reading
Letters – March, 26 2014
Inevitable An earn system based on miles was inevitable–inflation slowly eats away at the value of those flight miles, and everything else is revenue based. But a fixed point burn makes more sense… Continue Reading
Alaska Blocks Overseas Miles Buyers
Alaska Airlines recently barred Mileage Plan members with billing addresses and credit cards outside North America from purchasing the program’s miles. Alaska says they had to make the sudden change… Continue Reading
Garuda Indonesia Joins SkyTeam
Garuda Indonesia became the 20th member of the SkyTeam alliance last month after preparing for the membership since 2010. Members of SkyTeam frequent flyer programs can now use their miles for award flights… Continue Reading
Malaysia Airlines and Delta
Effective May 1, 2014, Malaysia Airlines will no longer be a Delta SkyMiles partner and SkyMiles members will not be able to book new award travel reservations on Malaysia Airlines. Malaysia Airlines… Continue Reading
Best Bets – March, 25 2014
Alaska Airlines is offering double award miles and double elite qualifying miles on select nonstop flights between Seattle and California or Las Vegas through May 31, 2014. Registration prior to your… Continue Reading