I’m sure this won’t be news for most of you, but I discovered this trick by accident. I’d noticed that KLM (KL) imposes a €10 “booking fee” on all online transactions. You can avoid this simply by performing your online booking on Delta (DL) instead as they have codeshare ventures between them.
American Airlines “instant upgrade” fares are an amazingly cheap source of British Airways Tier Points (TP). You see, the British Airways way of elite qualification disproportionately favours those who buy Business and First class fares, rather than those who fly economy class. (Which business wouldn’t?!).
Between 1st April – 30th June 2013, Hilton have an ongoing promotion with Miles and More awarding 2000 miles per Friday, Saturday or Sunday night stay instead of the usual 500. Here’s the registration link which also includes the full terms and conditions.
I mentioned just a few days ago that I got new racing stripes on my rental car after handing my keys to Hilton’s valet car parking service.
I had been a little too ambitious with my pre-flight lounge visit and ended up with only 3 minutes to get to my gate. As it turned out the gate agents had delayed boarding slightly, so whilst I was the last of the business class passengers to board, nearly all the economy passengers hadn’t started…
I have a question for you. What would you ask of Hilton if their valet parking service if they did this to your car but didn’t bother to inform you of anything?
I briefly mentioned the existence of the Flying Blue Petrolum club in passing in this post, but reader Damon’s comment in that post inspired me to do this write this new one.
A reader emailed me for help yesterday saying that Flying Blue were incorrectly crediting mileage or none at all on a few flights, but perhaps more annoyingly weren’t responsive or forthcoming when trying she tried to ask them to amend it. The issues were:
This is a last chance notice for those who are going to fly KLM on intra-Europe journeys. After this weekend, starting Monday 22nd April 2013, [Edit: Reader Mike has identified that it now been postponed until 14th May 2013.] KLM will introduce a new checked baggage fee.
If you’re lucky enough to be able to fly revenue fares (as opposed to award tickets) between London and Hong Kong, consider this promotion by Cathay Pacific carefully if you’re not in need of elite qualifying miles or tier points on other airline programmes.
Not strictly a post about points or miles, but still worthy news, if a little belated.
Back in January I wrote about how to use the Luhn Algorithm to instantly get free Hilton Gold status. In my experience attention to this promotion waxes and wanes every few months. Well, it seems that Milequest, Hack My Trip and Million Mile Secrets have caught onto the latest wave. But rather than putting the…
I’ve actually known about free Regus Gold membership for a while, and it’s very often offered as part of a deal between one of many loyalty programmes, including but not limited to: Priority Club, American Airlines, MileagePlus….even the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce has its own free offering.
I absolutely loathe early-morning flights, and I absolutely loathe airports that are miles away from the city they predominantly serve. Welcome to Taiwan Taoyuan Airport (TPE), about 30km west of Taipei City Centre. Of course I’m whinging and there’s nothing too bad about that distance, and the metro line extension to the airport due to…
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