The standard offer on the JetBlue Plus Card is 30,000 bonus points after you spend $1,000 on purchases within the first 90 days. In August for the first time we saw a 40,000 point signup bonus.
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Read MoreOverall I’d say that the new terminal 4 in Singapore is gorgeous, I’m happy originating there but I wouldn’t want to connect. And as for the Cathay Pacific lounge is was amazing for a business class lounge at an outstation!
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Read MoreA roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
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Read MoreA week and a half ago American Airlines suspended most of their catering at LAX after trace amounts of listeria was found at Gate Gourmet, which catered most of their flights (along with Delta, and several international airlines).
That’s a smart precaution to take, but it created big operational problems.
Continue reading Internal Update on American’s Catering Mess at LAX…
Read MoreWhen Delta and Northwest merged, the combined Delta became the largest airline leapfrogging United and American. Then United and Continental merged and took over the number one spot. And of course American and US Airways merged, to become the biggest single airline.
Except that Delta continued to grow organically, and surpassed United.
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Read MoreOf course we all love it when mistake fares happen and they’re honored and we get to travel the world at insanely cheap prices, especially in business or first class.
For some readers booking a $28 ticket to Paris presents a moral challenge: should you take advantage of something you know is a mistake? My own view is that I’m happy to book it, airlines will choose to honor it or they won’t, but if they’re going to fly people to Paris for $28 I’d like to be one of those people.
Continue reading Airlines Shouldn’t Have to Honor Mistake Fares – But Cancelling Tickets After More Than a Week is Bull…
Read MoreOn October 26, a Qatar Airways business class passenger from Doha to Manchester, U.K. was arrested on arrival for throwing mints.
The man drank 2 whiskies on the flight but reportedly appeared already drunk prior to departure. Cabin crew managed to get the man to return to his seat — but then he started throwing mints and that’s when he “had to be restrained with cable ties.”
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Read MoreI still have a Hyatt Credit Card. It’s great for the signup bonus which used to be 2 free nights at any Hyatt property, but is now 40,000 points after $2000 spend within 3 months. Of course a Hyatt property can cost up to 30,000 points per night for a standard room, but points are more flexible to split up across more room nights or to be used towards suites or on cash and points awards. And points can be transferred to someone else for free. Park Hyatt Hadahaa, Maldives I keep the card, the annual free night up to category 4 is more than worth the card’s $75 annual fee. But the reason to *get* the card is the signup bonus and because Chase doesn’t limit approvals to folks with fewer than 5 new…
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Read MoreFor many years the Fidelity Investment Rewards credit card has been one of the strongest cash back products. No annual fee cards offering 2% back don’t usually come with signup bonuses. However there’s a limited-time bonus for the card through December 31.
Meanwhile Alliant Credit Union Visa Signature offers 3% cash back the first year then 2.5%.
Continue reading $500 Signup Bonus on 2% Cash Back Card and Two 3% Cash Back Cards…
Read MoreThe hottest new credit card over the past year has been the Chase Sapphire Reserve. It’s launched as a Visa Infinite card, the third active one in the United States. It offers a trifecta in terms of bonus, strength of earning, and card benefits.
Yet I’ve long been a proponent of the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card. Which should you get?
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Read MoreAmerican Express opened a Centurion lounge in Hong Kong several weeks ago. While there are American Express lounges in several locations around the world, such as Sydney and Mexico City, this is the first Centurion Lounge outside the United States.
And the interesting thing is that this one, while accessible by both Platinum and Centurion cardholders, is the first one that’s really far more geared to the Centurion card set.
Continue reading Review: American Express Centurion Lounge Hong Kong Including Centurion Card Sit Down Dining…
Read MoreAmerican Express has a Centurion Lounge popup in London for two weekends: Friday, November 24th through Sunday the 26th and Friday, December 1 through Sunday the 3rd.
They’ll be offering snow globe making, make your own home fragrance, beauty services and brunch with Santa Claus on Saturdays taking photos with guests and handing out gifts. There will be a gift wrapping service with personalized calligraphy tags, photo booth, family area with movies and games, and semi-private work space with wifi.
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Read MoreQatar already flies 5 times daily to Bangkok, twice daily to Phuket, and will be daily Krabi service December 1 and four times weekly Chian Mai service December 12.
However I find new Pattaya service the strangest.
Continue reading Strange Route: Qatar Airways Launches Non-Stop Service to Pattaya, Thailand…
Read MoreA passenger was “manhandled, dragged and beaten on the tarmac” at Delhi’s airport by employees of IndiGo airlines.
The man had been unable to obtain even an apology from IndiGo, however now that the incident has gone viral, IndiGo is publicly apologizing. They’ve apparently already fired the employee who took the video exposing the incident, saying he was the instigator.
Continue reading Airline Employees Beat a Passenger on the Tarmac, Airline Fired Employee Who Caught it on Video…
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Read MorePaypal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel famous expressed disappointment in the revolution of tech saying something to the effect of, ‘we wanted flying cars and all we got was 140 characters.’
We’ve been expecting self-driving cars to eventually replace people — drivers are to Uber what DVDs in the mail was once to Netflix. But planes?
Continue reading Talk About Point-to-Point Travel, Uber Says It Will Introduce Flying Taxis in 2020…
Read MoreThis is a great premium card, with a big signup bonus and strong points-earning. It’s a $95 annual fee card, not a $450 annual fee card. And many of you can get a business card in fact you probably should.
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Read MoreQatar Airways CEO Akbar al Baker was just named Aviation Executive of the Year by the CAPA Centre for Aviation. Which is kind of like when he was the French Legion of Honor.
I’m not sure I agree with CAPA’s assessment of the man but there’s no more interesting or colorful person in aviation. I can’t wait for his next followup to claims like ‘Delta flies crap airplanes’ and that the major US airlines’ executives ‘are sitting around smelling glue’.
Continue reading The Airline Executive of the Year Wants to Create a New Mega Carrier…
Read MoreIn June the U.S. government announced they would be mostly banning tourist travel to Cuba.
New rules are being announced today although travel booked before June 16th when the President announced a new policy will be exempted and certain business agreements which pre-date the announcement will be grandfathered.
Continue reading US Government Announcing New Cuba Travel Restrictions Today…
Read MoreBose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones are marked down to $179 at Amazon reportedly part of an early Black Friday sale.
Bose noise cancelling headphones are the frequent traveler standard, and I highlighted a year ago when they were briefly marked down to $199 which was a heck of a deal. I haven’t seen that kind of a deal since, and this time it’s even lower.
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