United Airlines MileagePlus In 2018 launched a promo called Mile Play, trying to get members to spend and fly more. They refresh these offers every few months and have launched a new one for February.
The Mile Play promotion is tailored to each select member based on his/her recent activity with United. It may require buying more business class tickets or flying a certain number of trips through May 10, 2020.
Our Fabulous Fridays topic this week is about hotels that go above and beyond for their Elite members, providing benefits far higher than they would be required as per program and brand standard.
One of our readers recently stayed at the Courtyard By Marriott Sydney, North Ryde as a Marriott Platinum member and the hotel is very generous in extending benefits to Bonvoy Elite members.
Choice Privileges has brought back its popular free night award promotion for every two stays between March 7 – April 26, 2020.
Members earn a minimum 5,000 and a maximum of 8,000 bonus points for every two stays that are enough for a free night at more than 1,000 hotels.
Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to KLM and their business class promotional round trip fares between Bangkok and Europe.
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Hilton Honors an on-going very popular MVP Gold fast track offer that is open for anyone that has any affiliation with sports (even with an event), although the sign up is open for all.
Member who register for this offer and complete it in 2020 will have the status through early 2022 per the T&Cs.
While waiting for Marriott Bonvoy to launch their next global promotion (read about the possible one here), and while you can buy their points at a 50% bonus, we on Monday launched a giveaway for 100,000 points that ends tomorrow.
The giveaway is about to end, and you must enter by 11:59 PM ET on Friday (February 28, 2020). We will announce the winner on Sunday (March 1).
Heathrow’s proposed runaway expansion was put in serious doubt on Thursday as it was shut down by the Court of Appeals.
Court found that the expansion didn’t comply with the UK’s Climate Change Act. The government has decided not to appeal the ruling, but the Heathrow airport operator will.
Accor has today announced its status extension policy for ALL members residing in Greater China (Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan).
Accor Live Limitless member statuses (Silver, Gold, Platinum & Diamond) are extended through December 31, 2021. Points and upgrade certificate expiry dates are pushed up.
Today we got a Reader Email informing us about a really terrible situation at Air Canada that has been going on for months not but apparently became even worse then before: It’s impossible to reach their call center.
Remember that you can always email us, send a message via Facebook or use Twitter and include photos too. We’ll try to cover Reader Questions & Comments here several times a week.
Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Japan Airlines and their basic season business class advance purchase round trip fares between San Francisco and Bangkok. If credited to American Airlines AAdvantage program, this fare accrues 32,000 EQMs and 4,000 EQDs.
Remember that you can always email or send us a message via Facebook or Twitter with your airfare-related findings or questions.
ALL- Accor Live Limitless runs Private Sales in Europe, Australasia, Middle East, South America, and Asia weekly unless a Global Super or Private Sale is going on.
Accor Live Limitless revamped these Private Sale pages months ago, and the content is gone from some while still available on others.
Qantas on Wednesday released a new in-flight safety video to highlight the centennial of the airline from the 1920s to today.
The in-flight safety video took more than 12 months to produce and must have cost millions to make. It is rather long at more than 8 minutes in length.
Marriott Bonvoy’s last global promotion called Unlock More was valid for stays between October 29 – January 5, 2020 (read more here).
It is unusual for Marriott not to have a global offer for two months (there are some targeted and property/area-specific), but now there has been some chatter of new promotion to be unveiled next week.
