IHG Rewards Club has a new Great Escape-sale for stays at more than 150 participating hotels in the Middle East, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Members can save a minimum of 25% on breakfast inclusive rates for stays through March 31, 2020, if booked by November 10.
United Airlines has launched new MileagePlus buy miles sale that is valid for purchases made through November 8, 2019. You can check your bonus or discount offer on United’s website here.
United Airlines has promotions every month for buying miles, but they all max out at a 100% bonus or a 50% discount (the same offer because United usually limits the number of miles one can purchase per year, including any possible bonuses to 175K).
Qatar Airways Privilege Club has launched new up to 50% off Easy Deals for travel between November 1 – December 15, 2019.
Members that redeem their Qmiles can save 30%, 40%, or 50% on their flights between Doha and select cities if booked by November 30.
Le Club AccorHotels has launched a new offer for stays at CIS between October 20 – January 15, 2020.
Members can earn triple points in Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine if booked October 15 – November 15.
A LoyaltyLobby readers sent us a question regarding Hainan Airlines flight from Rome that has been canceled more than a month in advance due to “Corporate Planning.”
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.
Marriott Bonvoy launched last month it’s second ever points sale that is about to end. You must purchase by October 18, 2019. Marriott now allows members to buy double the number of points.
Members can save 30% on the points purchased or gifted. The maximum number of points that a member can buy or gifted in any calendar year is capped at 50,000. This is now, however, doubled to 100,000 for the duration of this campaign.
Air France – KLM Flying Blue has released Special Edition Promo Awards for travel this winter through March 31, 2020, that needs to be booked by October 20.
Flying Blue members can travel to Mexico City in 36,000 miles in business class or to New York for 11,000 in the economy, among others.
Le Club AccorHotels runs Private Sales in Europe, Australasia, Middle East, South America, and Asia weekly unless there is a global Super or Private Sale going on.
Le Club AccorHotels revamped these Private Sale pages months ago, and the content is gone from some while still available on others.
Our Whine Wednesdays topic this week is the demise of frequent flyer programs with airlines making it harder and harder to extract value for the average customer to really find value in participating.
Programs have become increasingly revenue centric and less flying activity focused with the changes of United Mileage Plus (John wrote about those here) being the latest victim of these measures.
Flybe, troubled UK airline that was having severe issues earlier this year, is rebranded in 2020 under Virgin Connect and will continue to fly around the UK regions.
Connect Airlines, the official name of the operations, is owned by Cyrus Capital Partners (40%), Stobart Group (30%), and Virgin Atlantic (30%).
IHG Rewards Club Kimpton has released their Last Minute Deals for this coming week/weekend of October 16 – 21, 2019.
These rates are only available for IHG Rewards Club members, are prepaid and available on select dates depending on the property (see the list below).
Singapore Airlines has launched its latest Spontaneous Escapes that are valid for travel November 1 – 30, 2019.
These awards are valid on travel both Singapore Airlines and SilkAir on select routes and discounted by 30%. You need to book these latest ones by October 31.
Hilton Honors has launched a new offer to drive app installations and bookings using their Chinese app.
Members can earn 2,000 bonus points per stay consumed by March 31, 2020, that is booked by December 31.
Today’s Airfare of the Day goes to Lufthansa and their First Class excursion round trip fares between Helsinki and Singapore. This fare allows to be booked via FRA on Singapore Airlines A380 codeshare flight featuring their First Class Suites.
Remember that you can always email me or send me a message via Facebook or Twitter with your airfare-related findings or questions.
