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The Hyatt Co brand credit card is out today, you can signup here. It looks like the signup bonus are not great at all, not 100K bonus points, not even 50K. You only got 2 free nights and 3 points per $ at hyatt and 1 point else where+ Platinum status.
Nothing worth to sign up for. Period!
Y to register here, then stay btw sep 1st to Nov 15th, earn 3K after first three stays and 1K for each additional stays for up to 10K.
This is stackable with current Hyatt 60K AA promotion and Hyatt 10K points for every 5 stays promotion.
Enroll this identity theft program with $9.99 per month, you will earn 5000 Delta miles upon enrollment.
The reason I said it may take $29.97 because according T&C, miles can take up to 12 weeks after enrollment, which means you will have to pay up to 3 months.
regardless, it’s a good promotion.
It’s very interesting to write about this today. I just took a flight from PRG-LHR in Business class, which was just first few row of the plane with middle seat blocked. There are minor difference with UK carriers, seats on left side are two bigger seats with one very small middle seat.
5 years ago, I took a flight from LHR-DUB on BMI with seat assignment 3C, at that time, I was general member of all airlines. The middle seat next to me was very very small, I was wondering who can fit in that seat at the time, not even a kid.
5 years later, I finally realized I was actually seating in the Business class, the seat was not intended for anyone.:P
I had flights from ONT-IAH-FRA-PRG, the flight from ONT-IAH scheduled to depart 12:25pm. Since I live pretty close to ONT, I normally don’t leave home until 1 hour prior to departure. For some reason, I thought my flight was actually 12:55pm, so my plan was to leave home around 12:00.
Around 11:15, my internet at home was down, so I decided to go to the airport a little early. Checkin, security all was pretty quick, I got to my gate around 11:50. All of sudden, I saw the boarding already started, I then looked screen TIME 12:25 pm. Had internet working properly at home, I would definitely missed the flight!!!
The flight had directTV on board, so I had various selections of entertainments! It was a great flight, but my connecting flight from IAH-FRA are much much much better and I was impressed by the brand new aircraft!
I have redeemed many AA miles before and have found several tips to help you get better results
1 You can use AA miles for BA flights to Canada, which includes YVR, YYC,YUL and YYC, then you can connect AA or AS to United States
2 For any awards involve dragon air+Cathay Pacific, ask agent to search point by point. For example, you want to go from Shanghai to Sydney, if you just tell agent this, they will not find any seats in any day. You have to tell them search PVG-HKG first, then from HKG-SYD
3 Above also applies to certain Japan Airline routes, you must search xxx-NRT then nrt-xxx
4 Use British website to search the award, whatever you see, you will be able to book with AA miles because Oneworld has agreement of sharing same award inventory.
Hope these small tips can help some people get better results
You can find more detail in here, the max bonus goes up to 100K for 36 hit, promotion running from Sep 1st to Nov 14th. Similar like last year,
each hotel stay is counted as 1 hit with max 6 hits , each one hotel partner transfer is counted as 1 hit, max 10 hits, 1 hit for buy miles, 1 hit for share miles, 1 hit for points.com swap in and 1 hit each for Dividend miles partners including shopping, skymall, etc.
Great promotion again, don’t know how many partners I can hit this year. Don’t have that kind of energy anymore~
Please note: Starwood activity that doesn’t earn at least 100 Dividend Miles will not count as 1 hit! So you can not run into a SPG hotel bar and buy 2 glasses of beers and get credit to be counted as 1 partner.
Instead of using BMI miles for the return, I used AA miles instead because I need to save some of my BD miles for travel with my baby. BMI miles award doesn’t charge anything for lap child, only infant taxes, which is very low.
Award is mix of British airways and Alaska airline via YVR with a overnight in YVR because not enough time to make connection back to States. Total is 50000 miles+ 99 in taxes. The entire reservation was completed less than 10 minutes. PRG-LHR-YVR-SEA-ONT
Really like one way award now.
You need to register here, then purchase and fly before Nov 15th, 2010. The promotion is running from Sep 15th-Nov 15th, 2010. The ticket must be contain both Aitalia, Air France, KLM or Delta AND Alaska airlines in order to get double miles.
It’s a one way ticket using BD miles, I am still waiting for return next Sun from ZRH-SFO flights open up, so I can have a flat bed both directions this time.
A lot times, Premium cabin award will be released when departure date getting closer. diff airlines or destinations have diff releasing date. for example, from LAX-HKG on Cathay, seats will be released 3 days prior to departure if there are still plenty of C cabin for sale, but for JFK-HKG on CX, it’s 7 days.
So, be patient, you will get what u want even if you missed early period
You need to click register link in your email, then stay btw now and Dec 31,2010, you will earn 1 free night for every 10 paid nights stay.
Better than nothing, especially for those long term stays guest
