PSA: Rakuten Owns Cartera (Which Runs Airline Shopping Portals)
In not-so-breaking news, Rakuten owns Cartera - the company which runs most airline shopping portals such as those for American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Delta, United, Southwest and more.
It turns out that this is actually...
Hyatt assigning My Hyatt Concierge to new 60-night Globalists
At the beginning of the month, I checked out from a 30-night Hyatt stay that was aimed at earning Hyatt Globalist status. I wrote a post when those 30 elite nights posted to my...
Wine Insiders Amex Offer: Be Cautious With Stacking
American Express launched some great Amex Offers for Platinum cardholders last week. One of those was for WineInsiders.com which gave $30 back when spending $30+. While not as good as the BestBuy.com and HomeDepot.com...
Aeroplan extending award ticket change fee waivers, will update elite status requirements
Air Canada's Aeroplan announced today that they are making some positive changes by extending change fee waivers and points expiration. They have also announced that they intend to update elite status earning requirements for...
Aeroplan adding Virgin Australia partnership
Air Canada's Aeroplan announced today that effective January 19th, Virgin Australia will be added to the list of Air Canada's partner airlines. This means that members will be able to both earn and redeem...
Membership Rewards Transfer To Etihad Currently Unavailable
One of the transfer partners of American Express Membership Rewards is the Etihad Guest program. For at least the last few days, it's not been possible to transfer points over to Etihad.
This is unlikely...
Set a United Travel Bank Reminder so you don’t lose your funds
Late last year, many of us loaded funds to the United Travel Bank as a way of banking airline credit since Travel Bank credits are valid for 5 years. However, The Points Pundit at...
Amex to introduce limited-time offers on cobrand cards (Marriott, Delta, Hilton)
Today, Amex officially announced a number of things that we had previously reported, including the $30 monthly PayPal credit that is now available on the consumer Platinum card and the incredible new Amex Offers...
Use Citi Prestige travel credit at supermarkets & restaurants in 2021
One of my 2021 predictions is that Citi wouldn't do anything notable. Did they manage to prove me wrong on Day 1 of the new year? I'll argue no, but you may disagree. Yesterday,...
Better Late Than Never: Delta Vacations Travel Vouchers Extended To 12/31/21
Sorry IHG. I know you tried super-hard to win the award for "We'll wait until after the last minute to extend your travel voucher", but you added new certificates a couple of weeks before...
Radisson extending certs to 6/21, points to 12/21, and status to 2/22
UPDATE 12/21/20: Radisson has updated these extensions:
Point expiration suspension:
We are extending our pause on the expiration of Radisson Rewards points. Any points that were set to expire between March 1, 2020 and December 30,...
RadPad Shutting Down Once Again From 1/15/21
It's déjà vu time because RadPad has once again advised that it's going to be shutting down operations.
RadPad had already shut down back in 2016 before restarting operations at some point later on. They...
Marriott devalues Homes & Villas point redemptions #Bonvoyed
In a master stroke of bad timing, Marriott has reduced the value of points when redeemed for Homes & Villas stays. Previously, points were worth 0.7 cents each for these stays, but now you'll...
Chase to issue Air Canada Mastercard credit cards to US-market
Chase, Air Canada, and Mastercard today announced that Chase will be the exclusive issuer of Air Canada Aeroplan credit cards in the US. Surprisingly (since most other Chase cards are Visa cards), these will...
