I’ve been touting LoungeBuddy travel App since they asked me to Beta test it in July and it just continues to grow. As a refresher, LoungeBuddy lists all the available lounges at the airports along your trip and the location, cost to enter, amenities, and other facts you may want to know. The programs asks you…
Hat Tip to my friend Daraius over at Million Mile Secrets who found a great offer from the Navy Federal Credit Union as he details here. It is very rare to find an offer like this which gives 60,000 points just for signing up for their CC and spending $3000. These points can be redeemed…
I know everyone is focused on the fact that 850,000 Government workers are sitting at home (my daughter for one), but know that they worked hard to get you a better Per Diem which took effect the day they were furloughed. Of course, the DoD civilians got back to work Monday and I don’t blame the…
As you know, I promoted LoungeBuddy a couple of months ago. It is a military-friendly app to find lounges including USO lounges. I have found it useful and they continue to expand the number of airports in its database. It is still not perfect as I found out a couple of weeks ago in Detroit,…
UPDATE: hat tip to the frequent miler, the free shipping is ending on Sept. 22nd, so if you need to meet minimum spends on Chase cards, and want to go the gift card route, I’d do it before then. Readers, here is another guest post by Andy. Given the popularity of his last one, I…
I wanted to highlight a post by my friend Ric from Loyalty Traveler that he made last week reminding us of a program offering free B&B nights for veterans. This is a great program, now in its 5th year, that offers up a free night on 11 November to military veterans in both the U.S….
I’d like to introduce Andy to all my readers. Andy is a Navy Officer who is interested in contributing to the blog. Expect to see him regularly around here. He already cowrites a financial blog for military personnel named militarymoneymanual.com His first post is very cool and I know that I want to take advantage…
OK, I admit I am not very good at the “Flash to bang” on this story since several of the Boarding Area bloggers have already published this story. However, since it applies to so many countries where Service Members live, I thought it worthy to bring to your attention. First of all, for those of…
OK, this might seem obvious to all of you, but I do get readers asking if they can use their FF miles for official travel and then file for reimbursement based upon the GSA fare. Trading miles for money doesn’t cut it in the Government system. Not to mention that the airlines might confiscate your…
I recently wrote about Loungebuddy, the new app to guide you to all the lounges available at the world’s main airports. Some of you downloaded the Beta version and feedback has (apparently) been streaming in as I recieved this in my AKO inbox: Dear Friend of LoungeBuddy, We’ve been hard at work making LoungeBuddy the best place…
