National Car Rental is celebrating their 25th anniversary with a contest called “Blast From the Past” via their Facebook page. You can submit a story, photo, or video on what you were doing 25 years ago for a chance to win $25 Visa Gift Card.

They also offered three prizes to me to give away to my readers: A Gift Basket consisting of a National tumbler, a National embossed leather writing pad, a National pen set, a weekend duffel bag and a driving kit, and two $25 American Express gift cards.

In order to enter my contest, I want to know what your favorite band was back in 1987.

My favorite band in 1987 was the Cure. I had been into hair bands up until then when a friend of mine let me borrow his Cure “Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me” cassette tape. I was blown away and my musical tastes changed forever.

This then led me to New Order

And to Depeche Mode

Leave a comment in the comment section of what your favorite band was in 1987 and I will pick three random winners from the entries – good luck!

Every four years, all nations of the world gather to play the world’s most watched sporting event – the World Cup. The next World Cup will be in Brazil in 2014.

As I sat on a recent flight on Kenya Airways, I thought to myself – what is THE best airline in the world and what would the criteria be? It’s certainly not Kenya Airways – but what if people from Nairobi believe it is?

There are so many factors to take into account:
- Elite status benefits
- Availability of award tickets
- In flight entertainment
- Business / First class product
- Quality of meals
- Economy product
- economical ticket fares

Every person has their own criteria when they judge whether a particular airline suits their needs, so rather than debate, I decided it’s time to make all the airlines go against each other in the Airline World Cup 2011 and let the readers decide based on their own preferences.

The rules are simple – there are seven qualifying regions to get to our pool of 32 airlines for the tournament: Africa, Middle Eastern, Asia, North America / Canada / Mexico, South America, Oceania, and Europe.

Each region, similar to World Cup qualifying, has a certain amount of slots available to them based on who you, the dedicated readers of MilesQuest, vote for.

Africa: 1
Middle Eastern: 3
Asia: 6
North America / Canada / Mexico: 6
South America: 2
Oceania: 1
Europe: 13

I will post a region with the qualifying airlines and through your votes, the winners of each region will advance to the tournament where they will battle each other in single elimination until we reach our winner of the Airline World Cup 2011.

Let the games begin!

This one won’t be around for very long. Rewards Gold is offering a free six month’s subscription to the Wall Street Journal for new subscribers only.

Go immediately to the link, fill out some surveys before it disappears!

The Melting Pot is giving away a grand prize of a six days and five nights trip for two to Bordeaux, France.

Other prizes include fondue for a year (valued at $1200), 10 – $100 gift cards to the Melting Pot, and 20 – $50 gift cards to the Melting Pot.

Enter here by November 14, 2010.

I know that this is not travel related in any way – but thought I would pass it on in any case.

1-800-Contacts is giving away free contacts for life.

All you have to provide is your name, email address, brand on contacts and eye details.

No purchase necessary to enter or win. Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Must be 18 or older and a legal U.S. resident of one of the fifty states or DC at time of entry to participate. Sweepstakes run from 12:01 a.m. ET on September 2, 2010 to 11:59 p.m. ET on October 6, 2010. Prize shall include any orders made the day of contest entry and all future orders. All orders placed before contest entry shall not be eligible.Sponsored by 1-800 CONTACTS, Inc., 66 East Wadsworth Park Drive, Draper, UT 84020

Delta has launched their Iphone app that lets you view your itineraries, check in, view flight status, flight schedules, and will even store a picture of where you parked.

As part of their promotion, they’re giving away 1,000,000 Skymiles for downloading the app and logging in. You can get an additional entry into the drawing by checking in for your flight via the app.

There will also be weekly prizes like $23 itunes gift card, $50 American Express gift card, and an iphone 4.

The promotion ends September 29, 2010.

All the details are here and you can download the app here.