I recently posted about a fare sale of Norwegian Air (here), a long-haul discount carrier connecting Europe and North America. And they are at it again, offering one-way fares for under $200 between the US and Europe. I’m not sure how they are going to make money on those fares, regardless of the load factors, […]
I posted about the recent launch of Cebu Pacific’s GetGo rewards program. This post highlights some updates I got from Nik Laming, the General Manager of the Loyalty Division. UPDATE: I have since written a full, in-depth review of the GetGo rewards program – click HERE to read all the information about earning rewards points,
Philippine Airlines and it’s reward program Mabuhay miles have been struggling – most of the regional carriers it is competing with are part of a global alliance. Now, based on an interview of PAL CEO Jaime Bautista with the Inquirer (a leading newspaper in the Philippines), Philippine Airlines is pursuing membership of a global alliance
Philippine Airlines just devalued their award redemption chart without notice – well, they were nice enough to send out an email on January 31st that new redemption rates have been in effect since January 12th! And all the changes are bad news, redemption rates are between 11% and 50% higher than before throughout their network!
With oil prices at historic lows, the airlines are running out of excuses for imposing fuel surcharges on their flights and exposing them as what they are: hidden increases of fares. They allowed airlines to advertise low fares, and hiding the surcharge among taxes and government fees, and also charge frequent fliers for their “free”
Cebu Pacific has done many, many 1Peso (approx. 2.2cents US) sales in the past, usually for flights 6-9 months out and I scored a few very cheap tickets to international destinations. What makes this sale much better than in the past is that the Philippine Government recently eliminated fuel surcharges on all flights departing the
Cebu Pacific has so far focused on low, low fares – now they just launched their own rewards program: GetGo! UPDATE: I have since this post written a full, detailed review of the GetGo program – click HERE to go to the full review!
The winners of the two United Premier Upgrades in the drawing announced here, raffled off among all the people who liked my Facebook page, followed me on Twitter or commented, have been determined: Dirk Regel Mark Gordon The United Global Premier Upgrades are valid through January 31, 2015, on any United flight operated on United
Do you just need to get away? Well, this time it’s not Southwest Airlines to help, but the European discount carrier, Norwegian Airlines. They have been promoting some crazy fares across the Atlantic and are at it again: They currently offer fares from New York, Miami, Orlando, Los Angeles and San Francisco to cities all over Europe
Flying Economy Class on United Airlines can be less than a stellar experience, especially on long-haul international flights. Reading DreamTravel OnPoints can help: I have two Global Premier Upgrades for United Airlines that expire on January 31st, 2015, and are happy to upgrade a reader on an upcoming flight from Economy to Business Class or
While I don’t really need any special reason to travel, and have lots of content for many, many more posts on this blog, for the first time I booked a trip to help with the content of this blog!
As enticing as the adds of the hotel and airline companies sound, often the number of flights or nights and the amount of money you need to spend, to actually get enough points for a free night or flight is staggering. But you can do it, as yesterdays post showed (insert link here), and get