British Airways is being sued by a group of flyers for imposing fuel surcharges on award tickets. If British should lose, it might open the floodgates of lawsuits against other “greedies” who brazenly and routinely use bogus “fuel surcharges” (also coded as YQ or YR), in order to pad their bottom-line. These infamous fuel… Continue Reading
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$19 PP a Day for an All-Inclusive Hotel. Does It Go Better Than That?
Yes. Last year I paid $12. Devaluations suck 🙂 Every year for the last 5 years or so, I’ve scheduled a week at an all-inclusive resort. It has become a tradition of sorts. There is something about lying by the pool or at the beach with a drink in your hand doing nothing. Agreed? So… Continue Reading
Chase Sapphire Preferred New 55K Points Offer–Like the Good Al’ Times, but Better!
Some blogs are reporting the offer as dead. I can still access it as of 5.55 PM EST. If you see 40,000 points when you click on the link, try manually copy the link and paste it in Incognito (Chrome) or In-Private (IE). Please report your experiences There is finally some good news we… Continue Reading
The Merger of Them All
The main event of the last week was the decisive victory of American Airlines, US Airways, and ultimately the US consumers over the DOJ’s malicious attempts to halt their merger. Since American and US Air agreed to divest a few slots scattered across some of the nation’s airports, the merger will proceed as planned. The… Continue Reading
US Air and American Are Now Free to Tie the Knot
This is my Sunday Post at Frugal Travel Guy In a surprising announcement on November 12, American and US Air declared that they had come to the agreement with the Department of Justice to settle (as DOJ put it) “Merger Challenge.” The agreement arrived on the same very day the DOJ announced that “the Justice… Continue Reading
Spend Your Soon-To-Be Devalued United Miles on an Award Flight to the World Cup in Brazil!
A couple months ago, I wrote a post on Frugal Travel Guy. I mentioned (among other things) how the airlines had been blocking all award seats for the whole June and July 2014. And then I predicted–boldly enough, LOL–that tickets would go back on sale and that all you needed to do is wait. I… Continue Reading
Are Shopping Portals Worthwhile?
alles-schlumpf / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA This is my Saturday post for Frugal Travel Guy With the holiday season just around the corner, combined with the improved economy, shopping is on everyone’s mind. Loyalty programs have never been shy trying to sell us stuff other than flights and hotel rooms. So much so, that I… Continue Reading
Hyatt Devalues Too… Haven’t We All Had Enough!
After the epic United and sneaky Delta devaluations, Hyatt has become the lucky charm that declared a major devaluation of their loyalty program in the last 10 days. To be honest, Hyatt devaluation is not as dramatic as United’s and not as kick-in-the guts as Delta’s. It’s more balanced. They charge more points for each… Continue Reading
American Airlines Reduced Mileage Award Sweet Spots
Foter.com / CC BY This is my Saturday post at frugaltravelguy.com If you are the holder of at least one of American Airlines better credit cards (and who isn’t) take a closer look at their Citi AAdvantage Reduced Mileage Awards promo that is running until January 2014. I was surprised to find many interesting destinations… Continue Reading
United Slashes 20% off Award Redemption to Europe: A Silver Lining?
Ken Iwelumo / Foter.com / GNU Free Documentation License It seems United wants to make amends. And in the process re-train us to fly in economy class to Europe. What a daunting task! Here is the United offer in its entirety. I took a liberty to highlight things I find important. Save 20% on a… Continue Reading
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