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Are Airlines About To Copy Hotels With New Restrictions On Earning Points?
It’s a really, really interesting day in the world of travel rewards. For the first time in more than a decade, an airline is threatening not to award points or credit toward earning elite perks if you book through the wrong channels. In fact, it’s not a threat — it’s a promise. American Airlines will…
Do Cabin Crew Know If You Used Points For Your Flight?
There’s a funny moment that happens when many people redeem rewards points for their first luxury flying experience. It’s somewhat a feeling of imposter syndrome. Will anyone know that I just used points? The short answer: maybe, but most likely not. Each airline equips crew with different customer insights for different reasons and unless you…
£1160 Euro Cities to North America in Business Class
This deal is brought to you by our friends Premium-Flights Oneworld partners have launched an excellent sale in Business class from European cities to North America. The cheapest options for business class tickets are available from Dublin, but your trip needs to end in Spain, and not in Dublin. This is known as an open-jaw…
Perfect Points: Two Cards, 5X Earning And Just One Annual Fee
Earning points at optimal rates doesn’t need to involve spreadsheets, 19 cards in the wallet, 10 more in the sock drawer and admin time that negates the value of earning rewards “for free”. My time certainly isn’t. One of the best ways to “win” the points game is to find card pairs which complement each…
How “A-Listers” And VIPs Board Flights
“Cabin crew, boarding complete”. I’m lucky to regularly find myself in the front of the plane and that occasionally means more than just a big wide seat, a bed and some nicer plates for my plane food, which no matter where you’re sitting is usually just that. Sometimes, first or business class means the added…
Business Travel Slump: How Leisure Travelers Benefit (And Airlines Can Too)
Business travel as we knew it, is down. Not all airline executives will admit it and some industry CEO’s will probably intellectualize it too much, but it’s true. That’s just a fact. What that means for airlines isn’t necessarily all bad news and what it means for leisure travelers is in many ways positive. The…
