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I’ve never been above a bit of shameless self-promotion and I see no need to start now. Fozz, Stephen and I have started up a...
Frequent Flyer
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In flight: Another Puerto Rico trip with JetBlue
I found it somewhat strange as I met folks in Puerto Rico last week; many of them wanted to know if it was my first...
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Updated earnings rates for SAS flights
A couple partners have updated the earnings rates for flights operated by SAS this month. Most notable in the changes are the United Airlines‘ MileagePlus...
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Are loyalty program points the next hard currency??
The analogies of points as a currency are not new. There are a few programs out there today that already have "pay with points" types...
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A 20 hour trip, condensed into 2 minutes
Lots of folks have dinner in Portland, Oregon on any given night. Or course, most of them actually live in Portland and aren’t visiting from...
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United speaks out!
A last minute change to the schedule of an event is rarely a good thing; swapping out speakers and shuffling slots is a pain for...
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A quick social media report from the Freddies
Last night’s Freddies Awards ceremony was, as always, a lot of fun as an event. I’m not quite as focused on who won which awards...
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Tiers within tiers from the loyalty programs
I’m sitting in on the Airline Information Spring FFP event today and absorbing a tremendous amount of information from both the programs themselves and the...
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Star Alliance award search and free alerts!
It was a couple weeks ago, sitting at a restaurant with The Points Guy in Singapore and chatting about my travel tools that I said...
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JetBlue looks to expand redemption options for TrueBlue
One of the biggest limitations of JetBlue‘s TrueBlue program has been the inability to redeem points for anything other than JetBlue flights. Not that their...