The Golden State Warriors vs. Miami Heat game on January 11th, 2016 features a giveaway to the first 12,000 fans of a 50% voucher off a future Alaska Airlines flight between April 21, 2016 to June 15, 2016.
The hottest First Class product in the market today is probably the Etihad Apartments, which are currently only available on flights serviced by the Airbus A380. And those routes are limited currently to London and Sydney, with A380 service to New York commencing on November 23rd.The Etihad A380 features 9 First Class Apartments, along with 70 of it’s flat-bed Business Class Studio seats. And the best news? Award space on the A380 is WIDE OPEN!
Like many of you, I spend a ton of time on Flyertalk and these forums contain a wealth of information about everything you could ever want to possibly know about anything travel-related. But with user-generated content comes a fair amount of complaining. It simply comes with the territory. I generally group the complaints and rants that I come across into 3 buckets:
A new promotion from Hilton was just announced this week, which will allow you to earn double points for weekday stays and triple points for weekend stays starting September 1, 2015 and running through December 31, 2015. While many of these promotions are diluted based on specific hotels choosing to opt-out, the great news here is that ALL Hilton-family hotels will be included.
There’s a video circulating of a KLM Boeing 777 landing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport earlier this week into a windstorm that reached speeds of over 75 MPH. The scariest moment comes…
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It’s a process that I go through every year for each of my credit cards – the annual retention call. I throw on my most innocent sounding voice, and call the number on the back of the card. “Hello, I just noticed that the annual fee was billed and I’d like to cancel my credit card.” That sentence usually triggers a “WAIT STOP!” type of response from the customer service representative, and a couple minutes later I’m walking away with some free points or a statement credit.
It’s a list that’s as controversial as the rankings of “Best Airlines In the World” and “Best Hotels In The World”, but I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t interested in the newly released 2015 World’s Best Restaurants. This is an annual list produced by Restaurant magazine in the UK with results based on a polling of chefs, restauranteurs, and food critics. In other words, the scores are probably about as subjective as a figure skating competition or college football’s BCS.
Earlier this week, Alaska Airlines announced the addition of 3 domestics routes between Seattle and Nashville, Charleston, and Raleigh. They didn’t waste any time coming back with more news, and announced today…
The NFL draft is already upon us, which means that it’s time to start thinking about football again! Each team will be cramming in some last-minute studying of their draft…