I just saw this short story come across from Associated Press. United shuts down website bookings 3:31 PM ET, 09/12/2013 – Associated Press United Airlines was selling some tickets on Thursday for as little as $5 before shutting down bookings on its website. Some customers were able to buy tickets before the airline stopped accepting…
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…
A couple of people have recently posted on this old post about TSA Pre-Check reporting a failure to get through Pre-Check with their CAC Card. I went to the TSA website to see if their was anything new on locations for Pre-Check and how the military works within that system. Sure enough, the information is…
Yesterday I wrote about a great new app for finding lounges at the airport including the USO. If you missed it read it here. The guys from LoungeBuddy are generously giving the first 100 of my readers (so in other words all of you) a free download of their iPhone app (Android coming later). Here is…
I was recently invited to beta test a new app called Loungebuddy which, as you may guess, is used for finding airport lounges. Most of you may be saying “I don’t belong to a club/ lounge and I don’t plan on paying for one”. Well, you will still find this app very useful as they…
