You learn everything you need to know about the glorious Southwest Companion Pass, the US Airways awards you should look to book soon before they go away, read an interesting scenario about lying for upgrades, visit Armenia, marvel at my dream car the new Ford GT, and we have links for new direct Marriott & Amex Gold Card Offers.
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Southwest Companion Pass – Doctor of Credit Stop reading all the blog posts with the endless $$$ links on this topic, they suck anyway. This is all you need to know!
US Airways Awards to Book Before the AA/US Merger – Miles Remaining Going, going…You don’t have much time left for these, burn, burn, burn…or they become AA miles…which is fine I guess.
Is lying to get an airplane upgrade so bad? – MarketWatch Moneyologist answers a question about lying to get an upgrade to First Class. Hmmm…Interesting story here. It involves carrying a walking stick…oh my. Confession: I have had wedding anniversaries at hotels a few times 🙂
This Video Of The Largest Breakage Of Ice From A Glacier Ever Filmed Is Absolutely Frightening This video is from the documentary “Chasing Ice” which I wanted so bad to watch but somehow never managed to do so. It is breathtaking to watch!
Picture of the Day: Winter at the Wiesen Viaductn – Twisted Sifter What a pretty landscape, reminds me of Ann Arbor…like right now!
An Armenia Retrospective – And An Inspiration – Seat 31B Post links to a fantastic trip report posted on FlyerTalk. Give me stuff like this and let the Titans stick their caviar and Krug…wherever they want, we don’t care!
24 Awesome Cars You Can’t Miss At The Detroit Auto Show I LOVE the new FORD GT. Hope we get an employee discount and the only way I can get it is if every reader got every credit card from me and did online shopping at Amazon for…several years. I like impossible goals. LETS DO IT YOU GUYS!!!!
The Basic Simple Truths of Investing – The Big Picture This is excellent, must read. I could have written this…but I didn’t as I was busy with all the fantastic blogs at Boarding Area…cough 🙂
8 Things Happy People Do Every Morning – Mind Body Green This is for the inspiration part of the TBB mission. I should add #9 “Checking Twitter every morning at Panera drinking hazelnut coffee”.
BUZZING IT UP:
I am adding again this section with interesting developments in the blogosphere & personal stuff. Please note that this section will generally NOT be for new readers in the hobby! So far the main “negative” rant will appear in the Blog Buzz once a week…if we can get to it as the plastic pumping is totally out of control!
Apparently it looks like so many Titan bloggers who are in bed with Hyatt are being fed horse food. It appears there is no Diamond challenge anymore…or whatever they call it. Or maybe it is for certain people. When you email them to enroll, the Hyatt Gold Passport reps are just clueless and get back to you with a canned response saying NOPE. It is funny how some of these “connected” bloggers who pass as experts broke the news to us how this program was “enhanced” after they repeatedly blog to death this “deal” and then…SILENCE. So watch out where you get your travel & miles/point fix. We are proud we have not been offered anything yet…maybe it is because we are not Titans or, more likely, nobody knows we actually exist lol!
Reader BOP (Best Offers Patrol) let me know of this 70k Marriott offer in the comments in yesterday’s blog post. And he did a summary of the best credit card offers appearing in my glorious Credit Cards tab, thank you! If you have any corrections to it please let me know. I may throw it back in the comments again today hoping for a click. Hey you can be FIRST this week 🙂
Another direct offer from Amex for 50k Membership Rewards Points for the Amex Business Gold Rewards Card. If it does not come up keep clicking, use other browsers, do the cookie thing or the benito thing (or incognito or whatever that is called).
I would not be shocked if Delta Points contacted Miles To Memories expressing his feedback on how amazing the blog is and how wrong I was. All I can do is just giggle. Update: See Post #61 I.Am.Buzzard!
I am expecting a post at Million Mile Secrets about how to use a walking stick at the airport, after of course making some quarters hijacking some carts and flashing some cards to cut in line! Yes, I am still blown away by that “inspiration” incident yesterday! Should I send you all a survey pretending I want to hear your feedback whether to start using my own direct affiliate links next? 😉
Where is Steve? And harvson3? I don’t care where Rick is but I sure would like an update on the TBB Alexa rankings you know lol.
Son may enroll in a University of Michigan camp geared to incoming freshmen that takes place when we were planning to be in Greece….so that first major miles burn is likely not going to happen. Thank you for your understanding, you know how much this hurts!
My wife in Facebook posted this picture of our daughter from several years ago which I had totally forgotten about. It is one of my favorites!
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Surely not first?
maybe?
Bronze?
LOL…that red train reminds me of the DTW terminal ExpressTrain…but obviously more photogenic.
Actually that train resembles the train in DTW!
Harvson3 and Steve, I miss them too. And what was the name of that hostile guy …….guy with a superhero name, miss him too. Too bad you can’t get rid of Ramsey……………………….As far as what people will do and say to get in F/C, I could write a book of stories if my memory wasn’t degenerating so fast. EVERY flight someone is going to to what they can to sneak up there. F/A’s are very jaded to these type of customers. I think in the past 2 years here I’ve written about pre-elected Geo.W, woman who faked heart attack, and actor David Keith and the things they did to get into F/C.
If you write “The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Ways Passengers Tried To Get Upgraded to First Class as F/A” I will post it here, please keep it clean…kind of but not too much hehe.
You can have the revs from that day Ramsey..the thing is…it may cost more to send them to you LOL.
I hope Steve and Harvson3 are okay. Superhero who?
Your wife works at Ford? I like you even more! Say thank you to her or her boss for bumping up dividend rate another 20%, I was very pleased to hear it. Dividend/bond/REIT/MLP strategy for ROTH IRA should get more coverage on this blog!
We are all Ford now, all the way! Love them benefits and she loves it there too.
I definitely do not want to turn this into a finance blog, got another one for that!
Careful on them MLPs!
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British Airways Visa 50k (now with no annual fee in first year!)
Starwood SPG Amex 25k (30k may come again later if you would like to wait)
The Carnival Mastercard (just kidding TBB)
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Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Mastercard 35k (if you are running out of cards)
Then for BUSINESS CARDS click “Cards For Business” and then on:
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Starwood SPG Business Amex 25k (same applies as personal, a 30k offer is likely coming)
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Citi Thank You Premier Card 50k —–> Click on “Cash Back” on the left hand side, scroll down, click on Page 2 and the offer is about half way through the page.
Citi Thank You Preferred Card 30k —–> Click on “Cash Back” on the left hand side, scroll down, click on Page 2 and the offer is about half way through the page.
For targeted offers to you, try using the CARDMATCH link for TBB! Some people have been receiving 100k (one got a 150k!!!) offers for the Amex Plainum cards, 50k Amex Premier Rewards Gold and 30k Amex Everyday cards. You have nothing to lose, no credit pulls at all!
Click on TBB’s CREDIT CARDS tab above and then click on CARDMATCH which is above the CreditCards.com banner
Or just click on the cc.com link or banner and then click on “Offers Matched for You” on the top left corner
If there are any corrections please comment here and I give permission to TBB to edit this post. If there is response I may cut and paste to another future blog post.
I think you double posted by accident so I am deleting the second one. And thanks again! Got a reader who emailed me he got the Arrival card for his wife and was instantly approved too!
You’re cancelling your Greece trip so your son can go to on a partying binge, er orientation before he starts college? Is that right?
Make sure he brings lots of condoms…#birdsandthebees
I am on hold for almost an hour with American as I type…And this is the trick to call the EXP line. WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Perhaps the Gods just don’t want me to book this baby. Amazingly the return on UA still shows! If nobody answers the *&%#ing phone soon I am going to bed!
Nobody tells them what a bitch it can be to burn the miles (especially for 4 to Greece..in the summer!)