It’s close to the year end and you’re just a bit short of the necessary Tier Points. What should you do? This post gives some strategies for you to boost your chances of holding onto elite status.
Points to be Made and Pointimize are partnering up to allow readers to search through award redemption options while being able to find blog posts relevant to their search.
AeroMexico’s status match campaign has sprung up and I thought it was worth spreading the information. There appears to be only sparse information over at Status Matcher, and what is there seems old. For the novices I wrote a post last year to introduce status matches here. As per usual status match requirements you will need to…
Free status brings benefits in all sorts of programmes, so why not grab this one while you can? Remember, you can always borrow an address off someone!
Alitalia is offering free and instant Hilton Gold to its members. Somewhere within your email inbox you should find a unique link which will activate your Gold status.
It is possible to reach Skyteam Elite Plus via a status match currently active as of June 2015. The post describes more.
Status Matching is the process of asking a loyalty programme to award an equivalent VIP level from a competitor. This post further describes how to do it.
Free Etihad Status Match being offered if you hold high enough status with other airlines! There isn’t a comparison table, but you can be fairly certain if you have highest alliance-wide status, you’ll get Etihad Gold.
If you live in Europe, then Points Miles and Martinis has put out a link to get free Club Carlson Gold status for new accounts only. You need to subscribe by 31st May 2014, and your status is good through until 28th February 2015.
Oil workers rejoice! Your safety-minded employers who, where possible, prohibit flight transfers can breathe a sigh of relief. SAS will launch an all-business class service between Houston (IAH) and Stavanger (SVG) starting 20th August 2014, just days ahead one of Norway’s largest Oil and Gas conferences.
I’ve been following a particular pattern on Statusmatcher and the one from China Airlines has perked my interest.
Star Alliance have just posted something interesting on Facebook. There are 36 prizes of Star Alliance gold to be won.
Hilton and Marriott are giving instant, free Silver status on both programmes.
Hilton is giving Gold status to Visa Infinite cardholders again. Here is the sign up link. This time it’s for residents of: Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. The offer closes on 31st March 2014, but the new Gold status will be valid until March 2015….
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.