As thunderstorms and torrential rain swept across the UK overnight, London-Stansted Airport suffered a lightning strike disabling many systems including the fuel supply for all aircraft.
The system outage caused numerous delays, some of which are still ongoing. Departing passengers should check their flight status prior to going to Stansted Airport.
This week LoyaltyLobby pays a visit to the Hotel Indigo Leicester Square in London. This is a brand new IHG hotel that just opened a couple of weeks ago in the heart of Central London. One of our readers ran into an issue and interruption with their stay
Remember that you can always email us, send a message via Facebook or use Twitter and include photos too. We’ll try to cover a Compensation Clinic case here once a week, every Sunday.
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) this week issued five enforcement orders with penalties against five foreign airlines of British Airways, Air Canada, Icelandair, Vietnam Airlines and TAME.
British Airlines had failed to allow passengers to deboard after two long tarmac delays, Air Canada didn’t have proper handouts available for passengers in case of IDBs, Icelandair had failed to respond to customer complaints in a timely manner, and both Vietnam Airlines and TAME had marketed fares to US customers that had not been all inclusive.
The Avianca LifeMiles promotion for buying miles with up to 135% bonus on purchases is almost over and will end on May 30, 2018
LifeMiles members can purchase up to 200,000 miles every calendar year. Some members may have higher, individually targeted offers than others.
Marriott has updated the Best Rate Guarantee terms of its Look No Further (applies to Marriott properties) and SPG Best Rate Guarantee-programs effective May 25, 2018.
These programs are now brought under the same set of rules mainly from the Marriott side and requiring that the claims are done minimum of 24 hours before of hotel’s standard check in time (Marriott allowed 10PM local time day of checking in) and within 24 hours of making the reservation.
Lufthansa has in recent months operated several German domestic routes with long haul equipment such as Boeing 747 and Airbus A340, allowing Business Class passengers to select seats in First Class.
It’s recommended to watch these seat reservations as these don’t always stick per the experience of some of our readers.
Kimpton Hotels today launched new secret password “Out of Office” that is valid for stays through September 3, 2018.
Members that utter these words at the time of checking in are in for a surprise that could be such as free parking, breakfast or drink at the bar (property decides).
IHG Rewards Club has sent out a new offer for select members offering them up to 10,000 bonus points by August 31, 2018.
Members can earn up up to 10,000 bonus points by staying five nights over one stay or 4,000 bonus points after first stay and additional 6,000 bonus points after the second one.
Copa ConnectMiles has launched new buy miles campaign that is valid through May 31, 2018.
ConnectMiles members can buy miles at up to 40% bonus and maximum of 50,000 miles per transaction before bonus (yearly maximum is whopping 600,000 miles).
From our series Award Success we bring you a case of a recent award redemption a friend of mine did using Air Canada Aeroplan miles for an open jaw ticket between Vancouver and Amsterdam/Brussels.
If you have an interesting or complicated award you’d like to share after booking it successfully you can always email us, send a message via Facebook or use Twitter and include photos too.
