Marriott Rewards has a new promotion for those that collect United Airlines Mileage Plus miles. You can earn 1000 bonus miles per stay for up to 10,000 bonus miles for stays between May 30 and August 30, 2013, that are booked by July 15.
Note that you need to choose United Mileage Plus as you preferred earning preference instead of Marriott points and register for this promotion. You can access Marriott’s web page for this promotion here.
IHG Rewards Club has a new onetime bonus of 3000 points for Elite Member that is valid for 90 days after registration for this promotion. You can earn this bonus offer once.
Now, you may wonder that didn’t I write about this promotion the other day (see here)? Good news. There are actually TWO separate offers for 3000 bonus points for a stay that are combinable with each other.
IHG Rewards Club has a new promotion about to start for double points or miles for hotel stays between June 1 and July 31, 2013, starting from your second stay.
You will earn double points starting on your first stay at Candlewood or Staybridge Suite hotels.
IHG Rewards Club has a new onetime bonus of 1550 points for a stay by “new” member (works for existing ones as well). The stay needs to be within 90 days after registration for this offer to earn the points. You can earn this bonus offer once.
You can register for this promotion here or use promotion code 4648 at https://www.ihg.com/priorityclub/rewards/us/en/offers/promoreg/
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Qatar Airways has a new promotion for double base Qmiles for hotel or car rental transactions and triple miles if you have both (car & hotel) between June 15 and August 15, 2013.
You can access Qatar’s website for this promotion here, although there is no registration requirement for this offer. The double or triple Qmiles should post within 30 days after the end of the promotion period that should be around mid-September.
This was my first ever stay at Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. I am not 100% sure what this hotel brand stands for, but I would imagine it to be something too different and bold to be branded as Marriott or Renaissance.
There is another Marriott chain hotel in Bali – Courtyard that is located in the most southern part of the island called Nusa Dua.
IHG Rewards Club has a new onetime bonus of 3000 points for Elite Member that is valid for 90 days after registration for this promotion. You can earn this bonus offer once.
Note that this is a new promotion. If you participated to one of these offers in 2012, you are again eligible. It is unclear, whether this offer only applies for Platinum members or if it is open for Gold members as well.
Last week, I wrote about the social media lesson that LifeMiles was getting on it’s Facebook page and it wasn’t pretty (read my piece here).
LifeMiles changed its award chart unannounced (read here), changed the price of purchased miles during the ticketing process (read here) and, when LifeMiles members complained about these changes on Facebook, claimed that there hadn’t been any changes to its program.
Accor’s “Director of Propaganda” for Asia Pacific got caught last week for leaving glowing reviews of some Accor properties and not always so glowing ones of their rivals on TripAdvisor. You can read more about this on Telegraph’s website here and on Tnooz here.
I recently wrote about my ordeal with TripAdvisor here, where they didn’t publish a somewhat negative review of a property that I had stayed at.
Last week, I received emails from Club Carlson, Hyatt, and InterContinental Hotels Group about donating hotels points to help with disaster relief efforts in Oklahoma. Each of these programs would convert the hotel points donation to cash and give it to one of the non-profit entity that they supports.
Do giving points to help with these relief efforts make any sense? Mostly not due to the very low value of a point that these programs have associated their “currency” with.
Etihad has a new offer for double miles in economy and triple miles for business & first class for trips that are booked and ticketed between May 26 and July 21, 2013. This offer is valid for Etihad Guest accounts that are connected to BusinessConnect program and you can access it here.
You can read my take on the Etihad BusinessConnect here. This offer is for double or triple personal Etihad Guest miles, but only for accounts that are connected to a BusinessConnect.
This question comes up weekly on emails and messages that LoyaltyLobby readers sent me or leave on Ask John; Why the fees are so high on American Airlines issued awards to Europe?
The answer is that America Airlines collects (and likely also keeps as a ticketing carrier) the fuel surcharges that both British Airways and Iberia has filed for their routes.
When an airline has sold more seats to the flight that it can accommodate, they usually first source VDB (voluntarily denied boarding) volunteers for airline credits. If they don’t get enough VDB’s, then the airline can IDB (involuntarily denied boarding) some passengers that are usually eligible for cash compensation.
Delta has a function on their website, where they solicit VDB’s on flights that have been oversold. You can make your bid what would be your the lowest amount that you would be willing to give your seat on that specific flight.
