Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts now (sort of) allows booking in someone else’s name
Amex has apparently made a small tweak to the Fine Hotels & Resorts booking flow: while the terms indicate that the booking must be made in the name of the eligible cardholder, it is...
Saturday Selection: Finding Iberia 34K business class, pronouncing ITA, bad news from Virgin Atlantic...
From a key tip on the Iberia business class cheap seats to the end of a popular status match, the correction pronunciation of your airline's name, and more, here are this weekend's reads from...
Saturday Selection: Marriott half credit, Book Alaska with Singapore miles, and more
This weekend's Saturday selection includes confirmation that it is indeed possible to book Alaska Airlines flights with Singapore KrisFlyer miles, a concerning Marriott move, end of of easy Star Alliance Gold, and more. Click...
Great service: Success with a Capital One Shopping missing cash back claim
We have written extensively about Capital One Shopping, the shopping portal that does not require a Capital One card (and I include that in bold in sentence #1 because somebody misses that bit every time...
PSA: Check your ANA First Class bookings via Virgin Atlantic for spelling errors
If you listened to this morning's podcast and read the headline above, you already know what this post is going to be about. However, given a few similar data points from readers, I thought...
[BACK FOR JUL-OCT!] ANA First Class wide open, up to 5 seats in The...
Update 1/27/23: IT'S BACK! ANA once again has incredible first class award space between San Francisco and Tokyo. Once again we are seeing many dates with 2-4 seats available and some dates with five seats in business...
Saturday Selection: A new 12K Andaz, new Centurion lounge, secret Virgin Clubhouse hours and...
This weekend's selection from around the web includes what could be a nice new use of Hyatt Category 1-4 free night certificates, a good tip for those with Virgin Clubhouse access at JFK, the...
Why are JetBlue status points called Tiles? This is why.
Back in December JetBlue announced that they'll be revamping their TrueBlue loyalty program. You can read more about those changes here: JetBlue adding multiple elite status levels in 2023.
Those changes will be coming in...
Saturday Selection: Coming Starbucks deval, European all-inclusives, an extension for offers and more
If you're anything like me, you probably got behind on things in the month of December. Around the holidays, I always find it tough to keep up with everything at work on top of...
Southwest will not refund points for no-shows beginning July 1, 2023
I wanted to write a quick post to remind readers of something I mentioned in passing in a post or two recently and Tim first reported within a post in October: Southwest airlines will...
Alaska Airlines credit card changes: New free bag requirement, bonus categories
Bank of America has notified Alaska Airlines Visa Signature cardholders of changes coming to the credit card. The good news is that there will soon be some potentially useful bonus categories on the card....
Southwest compensating passengers with 25K points each as a goodwill gesture (check your email!)
Southwest Airlines is compensating at least some passengers who caught caught up in the crazy Southwest Airlines meltdown over the holidays by sending out apology points. If you were scheduled to fly during that...
Reminder: Check Amex app for “nearby offers”
On this weekend's podcast (the one publishing tomorrow), I mentioned something to Greg that we've written about before, but we thought it was worth a quick highlight again for those who may have forgotten:...
Southwest extends companion pass and qualifying period by a month
Gary at View from the Wing reports that Southwest Airlines is making a couple of customer-friendly moves to extend Companion Pass benefits and the qualifying period for elite status. Obviously Southwest has a lot...
