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Double Choice Privlieges Points in Europe
Choice Hotels recently launched the Choice Privileges rewards program in Europe. In celebration of the expansion, Choice Hotels and American Express are offering guests the chance to earn double points on qualifying stays at more than 300 properties in Europe.
Here’s how you score the points: First, you have to register for the promotion in advance. Then, you have to pay for your stay with your American Express card. If you do those two simple things, you’ll earn a total of 20 points per dollar spent. …
Date: September 5th, 2008 |
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Michael Waltrip Racing Auction
Best Western Hotels, one of which is incidentally my present location, is currently offering a sweet promotion for you NASCAR fans out there. I know about as much about NASCAR as I do about quantum physics (very little), but I think this is a pretty fun deal. Have you ever wanted to boss around your own race team? Best Western is ready to make it happen. In partnership with NASCAR and Michael Waltrip Racing, the hotel is offering one lucky fan the chance to be two-time Daytona …
Date: August 31st, 2008 |
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United Airlines offers Westin Products
United Airlines
, the same company that is currently laying off 1,500 flight attendants and [I believe] charging passengers for meals on international flights, is sprucing things up in first class with Westin Heavenly Bed products. To hell with all of those peoples jobs, if you’re traveling first class or business class p.s. service you’ll be super comfortable. This is the first time in the history of aviation that an airline and a hotel chain have teamed up to offer hotel branded amenities. I’m sure all of those unemployed …
Date: August 29th, 2008 |
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TSA Approved Laptop Bags
The TSA recently started allowing airline passengers to pass through security without removing their laptops from their bags, provided the bags are of the “TSA approved” variety. This is the biggest news for the frequent flyer since the ban on liquids. I haven’t tested my luck in the security line just yet, but I’m thinking about giving the new rules a whorl in the next few days.
The thing is you can’t have anything in the bag besides the laptop. Now, with the airlines being a little less lenient with …
Date: August 20th, 2008 |
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Southwest Airlines Blogger Contest
Southwest Airlines is holding a contest to find its next “Blog-o-spondent” for the Company’s blog, Nuts About Southwest. Wanna be a famous blogger like me? Here’s your chance. Between now and August 31, you can submit a one-minute audition video on to the powers that be at the official contest site. The finalists will be chosen by vote, so make sure all of your friends visit the site to help make you famous.
On September 1, the three entrants with the most votes on will …
Date: August 8th, 2008 |
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SPG Flights No Blackouts Policy
Starwood Preferred Guest, the guest loyalty program that includes brands such as Sheraton, Westin, aloft and Four Points, is bragging about its newest offering for members. What’s the big news? NO BLACKOUT DATES on flights purchased with points. Seriously, it’s just like that in all caps in the press release. That obviously says they mean business.
So what’s the deal? Starwood is launching the new SPG Flights …
Date: September 4th, 2008 |
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Continental Airlines Paypal and E-Checkin
Continental Airlines is offering a couple of new options for travelers this fall, helping to make your travel arrangements a little less painful. The airline is now offering travelers the ability to pay with PayPal when purchasing flights through continental.com. I’m not a big PayPal user myself, but this will most certainly be a good thing for some travelers. Customers have the ability use PayPal account balances, bank accounts, credit and debit cards through the PayPal program.
In addition, Continental is allowing passengers to check in for both their departing and return flights at the same …
Date: August 29th, 2008 |
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American Airlines Gogo
American Airlines is now offering passengers inflight broadband service through the company Aircell. Like all things in the airline industry these days, it comes with a price tag.
Marking the beginning of the next wireless revolution, American Airlines made history today with the launch of the mobile broadband service, Gogo(TM) provided by Aircell(R).
That is quite a statement from the airline’s press release. American Airlines passengers can now surf away on the airline’s Boeing 767-200 aircraft, which services nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, and New York and Miami.
“We are …
Date: August 24th, 2008 |
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Marriott MegaBonus 2008
Marriott is again offering the astoundingly popular MegaBonus promotion to Rewards members, and this year you can earn more than ever. We’re talking an unheard of 25,000 bonus points just for paying for your stay with a Visa Card. It might be the greatest hotel bonus promotion of all time…or of 2008 anyway.
For every third stay at a participating Marriott hotel in which you pay with your Visa card, you will score 5,000 MegaBonus points, topping out at 25,000 points. This offer is good from September 15, 2008 to …
Date: August 12th, 2008 |
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US Airways Aircraft Turn Into Flying Vending Machines
If you’re a regular reader, you know I’ve been very sympathetic to the plight of the airlines in recent months. While I’m not in love with the idea of paying for things like drinks and blankets that used to be free, I would much rather shell out a few bucks than have the airlines go bankrupt and end up stranded in some random city looking for a ride home. That being said, I LOVE this press release by the US Airways flight attendants who are being forced in to the …
Date: August 7th, 2008 |
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