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9,999 Bonus Miles with Budget

Budget car rental is offering 9,999 Continental Onepass miles on rentals of five consecutive days or more through January 31, 2008. Reservations must be made at Continental's website at least 24 hours in advance with discount code (BCD code) U072506....

25,000 Bonus Miles for 6 Car Rentals

Northwest's Drive Your Way to 25K promo offers 25,000 bonus miles after registering and completingsix (6) car rentals, for three (3) days or more per rental, of a mid-size or larger vehicle between December 10, 2007 and March 10, 2008with...

Discounted Business Class Awards to Spain

For travel between January 1 and March 12, American AAdvantage is offering discounted redemption on Iberia, the best deals being business class from either Boston or Washington, DC to Madrid for 60,000 miles instead of the usual 90,000. If only...

Details of Alitalia's "New" Program (And How You Lose All Your Already-Accumulated Miles)

Alitalia has come out with details of its 'new' frequent flyer program. Really, it's just a tweak of the old one, but by ending that one and starting fresh they get to completely flush out their existing mileage liability and...

Amex Plat Free Virgin Silver Status

American Express Platinum has a new benefit, Silver status with Virgin Atlantic. (Centurion gets Gold status, and Virgin is an American Express Membership Rewards transfer partner, so this relationship isn't suprising.) Since the signup offer is online, it's unclear to...

On Lufthansa's Newly Acquired Stake in JetBlue

Joe Sharkey suggests a motivation for Lufthansa's purchase of a stake in JetBlue: slots at New York-JFK in advance of Open Skies. It's not clear to me how partial ownership gives Lufthansa access to these slots, though. Lufthansa may well...

Slaying the StarNet Dragon

Last week I described United's system for denying awards on its partners, StarNet. Airline partners offer award seats, United won't book them, and its representatives say the award "isn't available." I didn't manage to get United to book first...

The Chase Churn is Over

For years frequent flyers got mileage-rich signing up for the United Visa fee-free the first year, scoring the signup bonus, cancelling, and then signing up again. Chase, which issues the card, finally closed that opportunity. However, lesser known to the...

Korean Air Skypass Introduces Expiring Miles

Miles earned on or after July 1, 2008 will expire after five years. Previously, miles never expired.The announcement claims that miles in the majority of international programs expire after 18 months or three years. What they don't say is that...

Hyatt Elite Status Double Credit Promo

Hyatt is offering double credits towards elite qualification on stays during the first three months of 2008. Registration required....

The Final Word on Amtrak to Choice Points Transfers

Randy Petersen puts the smack down and gets the straight story on Amtrak transfers to Choice Hotels. I recently reported that Amtrak reduced the value of transfers to Choice Hotels with no notice and then removed the option altogether.From NotiFlyer[Members...