We check out more details of the new AA award chart, learn more on Cathay Pacific awards, visit Black Sea and Iran and lots more!
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It was actually a decent day in the miles & points blogs yesterday. Usually I am bored out of my mind. So enjoy the most important posts of the previous day. You are welcome!
Mile Nerd‘s latest Top 25 Credit Cards. Always start here and finish at my site hehe.
Making the best of the coming AA award changes by Travel Is Free. Best analysis of award changes, something this blog excels in.
If you are looking for Cathay Pacific award space read THIS post at Travel Codex.
When to apply for the best credit card offers by Frequent Miler. I think I am in agreement with his line of thinking for the most part.
Another unexpected option to fly into Tehran, Iran for my Yomadic October 2016 Untour is…Air France which will start flying there from Paris three times per week on April 2016. Hmm, maybe I can finally blow my Delta Skydrachmas this way!
Fantastic timelapse video about Turkey’s Black Sea Region.
Greetings from Africa’s Premier Ski Resort. Yep, Africa! I had no idea such place even existed. This is just a beautiful post. Definitely not a Park Hyatt lol.
Demographic Destiny: What the World Will Look Like in 2050. Wow, fantastic job!
10 ways to destroy your portfolio. Excellent post.
The Top 25 News Photos of 2015. MUST Click!
10 Epic Star Wars Travel Destinations. The force is with me. To keep this blog going. Wish it wasn’t sometimes lol.
Top 10 Surprises of Blogging and Writing. This is an excellent piece about the subject. It’s by my wife’s former boss actually. This week I have been negative about blogging but it is not all doom and gloom, there ARE benefits! Enough to justify keeping up the quality content on a daily basis? Well, the answer is up to YOU the reader!
And I leave you with this…
For new developments, please see TBBBreakingNews in the TBB comments section throughout the day.
If I had a dollar for every link I feature here that then shows up in a Titan blog…I would be a Titan myself. I am so used to it by now…it is still kind of pathetic. Heck, it is even more pathetic me whining about it lol.
I can’t wait for the holidays, need to recharge. I will likely have archived posts repeated or I should take the whole time off like Mile Nerd.
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First!
If the multiverse theory is true, there could exist an alternate universe where George has recently been profiled in Rolling Stone magazine as the leading light of “The Hobby”.
Oh yes…the dream of becoming a Titan in my own amazingly ridiculous and non realistic terms #nevergiveup #facepalm
First-and in the open today.
I shoulda stayed anonymous.
Lol…good one! That was so close I had to call a huddle and do a click review 🙂
25% Hawaiian Miles Amex Membership Rewards Transfer Bonus.
http://milecards.com/1588424972/25-hawaiian-miles-amex-membership-rewards-transfer-bonus/
Titans read this blog first in addition to mine before they bang out a post with 10 links in it, wow. Looking at you VFTW again 🙂
George, LH & OS are already flying to THR/IKA, daily ex FRA, 3xweekly ex MUC, 5x exVIE. Your favorite greek *A carrier has a 4x weekly flight exATH.
But if you want to be a titan you probably have to fly EY F to AUH and then hop across to IKA on their 2xdaily flight.
Yeah, I do have lots of options! May go Titanic with EY F 🙂
I just realized there are two airports in Tehran, THR and IKA…Hmm, I better find out which airport Yomadic wants to land in…got time to plan this!
You will fly into IKR. THR used to be the airport but the amount of air traffic became too much for it (right in the city). So IKR is now what everyone flies into with THR being more for local/regional/private traffic.
You mean IKA I think. Ok, THR is scratched from my mega planning toolbox…—->my brain
American Airlines introduces Premium Economy to long haul fleet:
http://andystravelblog.boardingarea.com/2015/12/09/american-airlines-premium-economy/
If you want to learn about Delta…
http://www.slideshare.net/rapidtravelchai/rapid-travel-chai-delta-and-skyteam-at-ftua-sna-2015
Alternate Universe First !
Another great blog post by THE meta blogging Titan.
Was hoping I could get a 25% bonus transferring Hawaiian miles OUT of their program, oh well.
Loved the link on the African ski resort page for skiing on Montmartre Paris. Also the African place is about the cheapest I have heard of for skiing, even if it may not compare to the Alps.
Saw that big block Amazon banner for the first time using my laptop, I must have those blocked on my desktop, no wonder I’ve had trouble finding it. But the pink link in the first paragraph still works.
Thanks.
I doubt you will ever see a 25% bonus OUT of them Hawaiian Airlines miles 🙂
TBB Breaking News needs to announce Accor acquiring Fairmont, Raffles & SwissHotel. Enquiring minds want to know what happens to you lifetime elites at Fairmont.
They will get free tissues to cry into at the Motel 6
Hi, been busy doing post as I need to bail out for a holiday party….can’t turn down free food and booze tonight. Sorry TBBBreaking on Twitter but not here. I need to find better interns, youth of today is so lazy 🙂
Just teasing of course. I will be holiday partying tonight as well! Cheers!
Lol!
>>>>>>>>>>They will get free tissues to cry into at the Motel 6
You will pay for this….how about some goodwill and support feelings for these terribly difficult times instead?
Ha ha. No way, Jose. I was one of the jealous ones that could not pull the trigger on the Lifetime status via Groupon/LivingSocial/whatever so I have to take evil pleasure when you guys (maybe) get the shaft.
Reminds me of a joke:
French guy and American guy are walking down the street when they spot a very fancy car. American guy thinks: “One day, I will have a car as nice as that guy’s!!”. French guy thinks: “One day, that guy will have a car as shitty as mine!”
The shaft was expected some years ago. Especially after the buyout rumors were floating around so much. Been a good ride, no doubt and will be missed.
A Titan lost her Chase affiliate links. Where are you George?
I am all over this on….Twitter as I am logged in working in tomorrow’s post as I have a holiday party tonight and can’t post as “TBBBreakingNews”…I need to log out of WordPress first. The interns quit…again 🙂
Accor Hotels buys Fairmont Hotels.
http://loyaltylobby.com/2015/12/09/accor-buys-fhri-fairmont-raffles-swissotel/
I am devastated. I will have more in tomorrow’s post.
Mommy Points lost her direct Chase credit card links.
First, sorry to hear it, I have some idea how potentially strong the $$ hit is!
Second, she says “nothing will change”. I ‘ll tell you what will change: Expect less Chase credit card related posts. And that is why this blog will stay in the TBB Ignore List! #megaBSWow!
Yawn
Absolutely nothing…
Everyone must be weeping about the Accor – Fairmont news I guess…
People!
I am losing my Lifetime Fairmont Platinum status
That’s it…
I am outta here, nothing breaking as of now…Going to a party, let the holiday party season commence!
MPs is at least a cut above the others. Last spring when there was a non-commissioned version of the Chase UA card that had a $50 statemebt credit, she wrote about the $50 credit version. Leff said he’d reasearch it but I must have missed the product of his research, I never saw VFTW’s response either. They’re still playing, she’s not,
I know TBB disagrees with my conclusion, but in this game even a little integrity is worth a nod. And a nod is as good as a wink………..
So true. No, if it is because she took some time off the blog to have a baby, then it is not a nice thing. Losing that income is awful and frankly, unfair if she lost traffic during that time.
For the record, this was the only MP post I read in about a year as a reader alerted me to it.
Once you make the Ignore list, it is hard to come off. All bloggers have the occasional moment…well, not all 🙂
This game is all about CONVERSIONS. She did not keep them up. That is my guess. I would love to learn more if someone knows.
With yet another hit in BA ad revenue, I predict 2016 to be the year that small blogs die. TBB may fit that prediction too. The work that goes into a blog is unreal. For all you non bloggers, you have NO idea. I repeat. NO idea!
This whole arena of blogging full time and earning a comfortable living is just VERY absurd. In order to “make it” you need to become a pumping MACHINE preying on newbies, you are judged by CONVERSIONS ONLY! Definitely NOT content. They don’t care if you lie or deceive, they really do not! The little blogs try to pick up a few cc clicks so they can look in the mirror each morning and say out loud “this is really worth it, it really is, yes, really, it is”. It is a race to say “Just phuck it, this is just ludicrous to go on”. There comes that moment. Amazingly I keep going here for more than 3 years. It takes a special kind of insanity and WTF personality to do this, seriously people! There is the occasional day I get a CSP click and it makes all worth it though lol.
I need to schedule a post and work on my other blog I have neglected that has a “few” more readers. Like a few millions #facepalm
Why exactly did she lose the Chase links ?
See just above your comment for the answer.
If you don’t sign up enough people for chase/amex/citi/whatever CC each month ( the magic number is around 100-150) then it’s not worth the effort for the issuing bank to monitor your site. So the account is closed. I think the fact Chase is now more restrictive with the 5/24 rule means you can milk 3-5 applications from a new reader that uses your links dilligently. So expect more news articles or today show appearances soon. The ad revenue on BArea will not even a weeks supply of diapers nowadays.
I just want to remind everyone that the site will not change, only we will focus more on the credit cards we can get paid 🙂
Bwahahhaa….aaaaahhhhhhhgggggg
“Once you make the Ignore list, it is hard to come off.”
Well, yeah, ’cause we ignore them.
Yes, MP had a baby, and she’s taken the whole family to New Zealand next year, including the then thirteen month old. In either Business or First, I forget.
I hope when Donald Trump is elected, he acts on day one to ban infants from C and F. I mean-come on people!!! (Three exclamation points for that one).
You make a good point about ignoring these blogs which indeed makes it uncomfortable getting them off the list 🙂
My kids have seen the front of the plane less than five times. Not entitled little brats, did not want to ruin them lol.
So agree on this. I took my sons to Costa Rica and we got a free upgrade to business and that is the only time they have done it. I didn’t choose it; it just happened. One of my daughters I ended up switching to Business on miles when she was moving back to Chile because it saved her hundreds of dollars for the free bags she was checking to move. My other daughter and her husband are both lawyers in NYC and they went to Tahiti on their honeymoon in coach even though they could afford first. I mean I didn’t fly first or business until I had adult children myself! Lots of entitled people out there for sure.
I started ignoring her a few months after she had the baby and my life is better now (TBB speak). Her obsessiveness about trying to take stupid trips with a new baby was ridiculous. Her focus in the blog is weird and it’s not surprising Chase dropped her. Like, are we supposed to feel sorry for her because her husband’s employment is unstable and her newborn gets sick and she has to cancel trips to luxury resorts to which she scored first class award seats? Give me a break!
Yup because that’s how the average family travels of course… I don’t know what her readers smoke when they say they can relate to her blog.
I wish her the best. Waiting breathlessly for the blog not to change at all (translated to: expect A LOT less posts selling credit cards).
With $$ hits liike this and even less ad revenue coming in at BA I wonder how many of these blogs can still not fold and pay their bills #developing
I don’t normally read MommyPoints, but took a look at her “bye bye Chase” post after seeing this post.
As for her staying on the ignore list: look at her final appeal for Chase conversions: two of her recommendations are really horrendous: SW for only 25000 and Marriott for 50000. (Marriott has 2 or 3 offers right now that are much better.)
Hey…”Conversions is what matters”. So why hep the reader get the best offers when they don’t pay me, working so hard for YOU! Or something like that. This should be illegal! But it’s not.
It’s these practices that drive me nuts. And yet, so many go along. And yet they yell at me for pumping. I mean, is this wildly entertaining or what!
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