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Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

As View from the Wing reports:
Delta is offering 1000 bonus miles for online roundtrip ticket purchases through December 31st provided payment is made with an American Express card. The bonus can be earned up to 25 times and registration is required.
These crazy mileage offers never stop coming at DL!

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Delta to offer wifi domestically by 2009

Via The Flying Critic (who cites PC World):
GoGo will cost Delta flyers $9.95 on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 for flights that are longer than three hours. Delta says it expects to begin to offer in-flight Wi-Fi early 2009.
This is pretty exciting news, although I’m not sure whether to be happy or [...]

Angry passenger uses emergency slide to leave jetliner in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyanese authorities say a first-class airline passenger was so angry at seeing economy passengers leave a jetliner before him that he yanked open an emergency hatch and slid down the chute.
(source)
I saw this story on the news a few minutes ago, and this was the only source I could find. Now this [...]

Amazing Delta bonus miles offer for car rentals

From View From the Wing:
It’s a pretty rich offer. Book the car using the Delta.com Car Search Engine.
Offer is valid until August 1, 2008 for rentals of one day or longer at participating airport locations in the United States and Canada. The bonus can be earned up to 3 times. And don’t add any other [...]

Delta announces new award thresholds!

Finally something good! Much like UA’s “Elite Choice Rewards” or AA’s new bonus program, you actually get something for flying over 75,000! The major difference is that there’s nothing for those doing less than top tier status travel like AA and UA, but it’s still great. Here’s what you get:
Earn 100,000 MQMs—enjoy 15,000 bonus miles.
Earn 125,000 MQMs—enjoy [...]

Delta introduces fuel surcharges on awards

View from the Wing writes:
Now Delta has announced
we will add the following fuel surcharge to Award Tickets originating from the U.S. and Canada, effective August 15, 2008:
$25 for Award Travel between the 50 states and Canada
$50 for Award Travel between the 50 states/Canada and all international destinations
(They already have fuel surcharges ex-Europe.)
As my prediction suggests, [...]

750 free Delta miles

Frugal Travel Guy reports:
Some people can register and collect 750 Skymiles. Some can’t. Katy got them. I didn’t. Go figure. Here is the free 750 mile link
It worked for three out of the four accounts in my family that I control, so now I’m just waiting for the miles to post. While DL miles aren’t [...]

Some industry updates…

I figured I’d make a consolidated post with some of the stories/news I’ve seen in the industry this week. 

Many airlines are raising the price for liquor/food onboard. AirTran is raising the price of alcoholic beverages by a dollar to $6. Starting June 1, United is raising the price of their “fresh food” items to $7, [...]

Easier to get SQ F awards with DL miles than UA miles?

We all know about United Starnet blocking, but still, in my experience UA doesn’t block SQ11/12 very much, which is SQ’s flight from LAX to SIN via NRT and back. There’s typically one seat available for an F award when booking far in advance, but rarely more. The other three cabin SQ flight to the [...]

Some fun with UA and US… or not?

The Flying Critic reports about US’s new “Choice Seats,” and provides an excellent analysis. I recommend checking that out instead of me rehashing what he says, since there’s a lot of other exciting news. The only thing that I think is a bit ridiculous about this policy (beyond what we currently view as ridiculous; remember, [...]