For the weekly business traveler, the car rental offers a significant points and miles earning opportunity. Renting a car with bonus hotel or airline promotion offers can significantly increase the amount of miles you earn each week. For example, a friend earned 10,000 Delta Sky Miles per week during the 5,000 bonus miles offer with…
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Free status match to Southwest A-List for Colorado Residents
Through April 30, 2013, United MileagePlus Premier® and Frontier EarlyReturns Ascent or Summit members can get complimentary Rapid Rewards A-List Membership through a status match. The rules state members must have a Colorado primary mailing address in both their Southwest and matching program profiles. To take advantage of this elite status match, submit the following…
United’s Premier 1K Status Match Challenge For An AAdvantage Executive Platinum
United Airlines awards members who fly 100,000 Premier Qualifying Miles (PQM) or 120 Premier Qualifying Segments with their Premier 1K status level. However, there is a status challenge going on with United that you can get the benefits with minimal effort. If you hold top level elite status with another airline and ask them for a…
How To Modify United Award Ticket For Free
I’ll admit it, I have no status with United Airlines. I don’t have it as good as some United Premier Platinum, 1K, or Global Services who can avoid pretty much any fee. As a result of not having status, when I want to modify or cancel an award, I have to pay attention to the…
How To Cancel United Award Ticket For Free
Some airlines require costly fees to change or modify an award ticket. Airline frequent flyer elite members know this but are mostly exempt from the fees or know ways around the fees. In this post, I’ll share an experience with how I was able to cancel an award ticket with United Airlines for free and…
Earn Up To 2,525 United Miles With Avis Car Rentals
United and Avis have teamed up to offer up to 2,525 United MileagePlus miles for qualifying car rentals. The car rentals must be booked with a specific promotion code and the rental must begin by April 30, 2013. How To Earn MileagePlus Miles With Avis Book your Avis rental using Promotional Code: MUAA125 Promotion Details…
Lounges Of Las Vegas – Review Of Centurion Lounge And Club At Las
Mrs. Weekly Flyer was lucky enough to take a tour the new Centurion lounge in Las Vegas today. It’s located in Concourse D near gate D 4. You’ll see a bright blue door that is unmarked until you walk in….Secretive! Centurion American Express Club The Centurion American Express Club only opened a few days ago…
United reps can’t book select Austrian award space but YOU can
I wrote last week how I booked two Business Class seats on Austrian Airlines using United miles for this summer. I received several follow-up emails asking me how I was able to ticket the booking as it appears others attempting to book similar flights were running into a snag. As a follow-up, I wanted to…
United Mile Bonus Offer With Avis Rentals
Avis and United have come out with an interesting promotion for 2013. This promotion offers an escalating number of bonus miles the more days you rent with Avis. The promotion requires a coupon code, advance reservation and the rental must begin by March 15, 2013. Below is a summary of the promotion. How To Register…
Summer award availability excellent for new Austrian Airlines Business Class
The time is now to start thinking about Summer tickets to Europe if you are in the market. Last week I mentioned how good availability was for Business Class seats on the LOT 787 Dreamliner TO Europe. Another new and promising option to hop across the pond is on Austrian Airlines featuring their brand new…
Received United MileagePlus Explorer Card Offer And Here Are The Details
It’s been raining targeted offers here at Points, Miles & Martinis. Now, we’ve received the coveted targeted Chase United MileagePlus Explorer Card offer with gives 50,000 bonus miles after signing up and many more miles after meeting requirements. First, Mrs Weekly Flyer received the Platinum American Express card offer for 100,000 bonus points. Next, I…
How To Find Swiss Business Class Award Availability With United Miles
Finding award availability in Business Class for three people can be difficult. Throw in the fact that we were looking for three Business Class seats in Swiss, and we had a problem finding what we were looking for. But after careful searching, we ended up with three Business Class seats in Swiss on our preferred…
US To Europe Discount Awards – 48k Coach, 40k Business or 35k Coach Round Trip
Did you know United Coach Class to Europe at a 20% discount for 48,000 miles? Perhaps you’ve read about it. But did you know you can book a Business Class award for only 40,000 SPG Starpoints or redeem only 35,000 US Airways Dividend miles for a round trip Coach Class during low season? These are…
Hilton Airline Q4 Promotions – Delta, American, United and Others
Hilton is promoting two pretty nice bonus offers with partner airlines for Q4 that look like an easy way to earn miles. If you are close to getting a status tier on Delta and need more MQMs the promotion #1 below may be the help that you need if you have some upcoming stays with Hilton.…
Changing Singapore Airlines First Class Award On United Website Fail
A few weeks ago I set out to cancel my First Class Singapore Airlines award tickets. My goal was to cancel the ticket with as little out of pocket cost in terms of miles and dollars. Gary of View from the Wing, shared his thoughts on how to save the most money when cancelling an…
United’s 500,000 Mile Sweepstakes Through September 30, 2012
United is giving away 500,000 United miles with their United MileagePlus shopping Half-A-Million Miles sweepstakes. To enter, log into the United MileagePlus shopping portal and register between now and September 30, 2012. How To Register Register to enter the 500,000 United mile sweepstakes You’ll receive one entry via this method but you can enter more…
United Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Denver After Bird Hits Plane
According to this Denver 7 News report, a bird hit United flight 1475 during descent Tuesday. The flight departed Dallas and the plane struck a bird upon descent into Denver International Airport. Check out the damage to the nose of the plane from the picture provided by 7 News.
Trip To New York For 17k Miles With Three Airlines And A Bus
A few months ago we took a short weekend trip up to the Freddies. If you aren’t familiar, the Freddies is where the Loyalty Program Winners are crowned. This year the organizers picked Newark Airport Renaissance hotel as the venue. When we found out we had a ticket at the last minute we had to…
United Manually Cancelling 4 Mile First Class Awards To Asia
A reader wrote in today to let me know he’s seeing a cancellation message from United for his 4 Mile First Class awards to Asia. Message From United Is Showing Cancelled 4 Mile Award Ticket Your itinerary cannot be retrieved because it has been cancelled. You may use the portion of your ticket that has…
Free 1,000 United Miles Without MileagePlus Card
The MileagePlus Shopping portal is offering 1,000 MileagePlus miles for MileagePlus Credit Card registrations. But you can earn the 1,000 miles even if you don’t have the MileagePlus Credit Card. The terms and conditions state that “you must register your MileagePlus Credit Card in the MileagePlus Shopping program during the time of this promotion”, but…