Place of Travel Deals, Frequent Flyer/Guest Programs
From now through June 30th, 2010, transfer your hotel points to American Airline, you will get 25% for 20K miles or less, 35% for more than 20K.
Note: Marriott travel package award doesn’t earn any bonus
Without notifying anyone, NWA increased intra-Asia business class award from 30K-40K and intra-Africa business award from 50K to 100K!!!!!
This is a very bad move!!
The detail of promotion is here, you will earn 1K bonus on each transaction from selected partners for up 10K in addition to regular miles from April 24 to June 30, 2009.
So if you have a large purchase, divide them into small one
you need to register here, then do the partner activities before June 22nd, 2009 to earn bonus.
You can register both NWA and Delta and earn bonus on each, but NWA is harder than delta due to fewer partners.
You can link them from here and transfer miles btw accounts instantly, but do note that transfer miles btw accounts doesn’t extend u miles expiration on Delta.
This is a indirect way to transfer ur Amex Membership points to Northwest
I mentioned here about new NWA three tier redemption chart, which is similar to Delta system. However, the intra Asia Economy and Intra Africa Economy/Business still remain as 20K and 25K/50K and agent still able to calculate award level manually, so redeem them ASAP if u want to go to these detinations.
I posted few days ago about Northwest move on this benefit and expected Delta to match. Today, I saw this program update on delta.com.
“Effective March 1, 2009, the redeposit and reissue fee for Award Travel will no longer be waived for Platinum Medallion members in an effort to preserve award seat availability for all SkyMiles members. Platinum Medallions have conveyed that making as many awards seats available as possible is one of the most important SkyMiles benefits. Many of these award seat bookings are held until the last minute and never flown. As a result, other SkyMiles members are unable to secure those seats. As a reminder, Platinum Medallions are not charged an Award Ticket Fee for reservations ticketed less than three weeks before travel.”
This is bad, very bad!!!Free change can save considerable amount of money for Platinum members.With this change, I would say Gold level with them is more than enough, give ur money to programs that still offer ree change benefit for their Top Elite member.
There is a discussion on Flyertalk about upcoming benefit change on Northwest airline Platinum Elite member. Effective March 1st, 2009, Platinum member need to pay $100 for award redeposit and reissue fees (formerly called change fees).
There is no announcement from Delta yet for this change, but Northwest will become Delta soon, so I am expecting Delta will have same change.
A big plus for being a top elite of each airline program is waiving those fees, if this benefit is eliminating, it will be a BIG disappointment for lots of people.
Soon in late 2009, NW and DL will become one airline and Worldperks program and miles will become Delta Skymiles. In February, member of both programs can transfer btw their accounts without charge. However, in order to avoid taking advantage of lower award redemption fee and miles requirement with Northwest, NWA increases award level and fees to match with Delta skymiles.
The problem is, new chart is no longer showing travel btw Non US zone. I don’t know what is the effect on new Northwest intra Asia award and intra Africa award. Previously, they were 20K/30K and 25K/50K for economy and business. If the change is identical to Delta, then award will increase 25K/30K for Asia and 50K/80K for Africa. I think the only way to find out is call them after Jan 15th.
Current Financial Crisis and Economy Slowdown has made many carriers delayed their new service schedule or reduced frequency, but Northwest decide to launch DTW-PVG on time.
Nonstop service from Detroit to Shanghai begins March 28, 2009
You need to register here by May 31, 2009 and travel between March 28 and June 15, 2009.
Effective Oct 28, Elite member in both programs will be able to upgrade on each other flights. The Upgrade request will be based on
1 Elite level
2Fare class
3 Time of request
