We introduce to you a new low price airfare search engine, we saw the Apple card come up and Wow Air go down, we travel to Andorra and Baku, try to get RTW tickets if you have time on your hands, look at puppy photos, all the African countries and their year of independence, some quotes about ETFs, the latest devaluation from Singapore Airlines, more hotels are integrated into World of Hyatt and more for you and your beautiful eyes.
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In case you missed the awesome Wednesday post: North American Frequent Flyer Programs for Business Class to Europe – Which Is Best for You?
I found an awesome new search engine to find the lowest fares out of a specific city. Give it a try: Escape. So simple and SO powerful! And give me an HT if you blog about it!
In case you missed it, Wow Air went down. The only wow about that is how this airline managed to stay afloat for so long!
We also had Apple enter the world of credit cards with its own card. In-Depth Analysis: The New Apple Card Promises No Fees, Privacy, and Cash Back. I guess time will tell if this will be successful. Will it make me jump to get this card? Hell no! Goldman Sachs is its partner. Lets see what happens, nobody knows!
The devaluations in this hobby are so routine now…Singapore Airlines Devaluing Their Star Alliance Award Chart for the 2nd time in 16 months. There is a lot here to process, not your every day cut and paste pathetic job from a commercial site.
Hyatt just continues doing its thing. I think it is working. Hyatt Welcomes 8 Thompson Hotels in the Family – Their Award Categories and Promotions. Yeah, just eight properties but more are coming…And nice to have Two Hotels in Manhattan and Chicago Are Bookable with Hyatt Free Night Certificates now!
You don’t get to see many trip reports from this place! 25 Hours in Andorra.
Just in case you go to Baku: The Perfect Two Days in Baku Itinerary.
These are great. Well, at least some of them! 20 Best ETF Quotes. My fav:
“Talking about ETFs is like talking about people. There are good ones, and there are bad ones.” – Jack Bogle
A map of all African countries and the year they became independent. I love this!
Look at Venezuela, wow! Visualizing the Countries With the Most Oil Reserves.
Lets look at some puppies from the National Puppy Day. Just because I can blog whatever I want 🙂
And now we are entering BLOG BUZZ, a section for advanced hobbyists and veteran miles and points blog readers.
An updated Step by Step Guide to Getting Approved for Chase Business Cards. Well, it would be nice if you get them with my links you know!
If you are into…Finding All the Best Alaskan Stopovers.
These round-the-world tickets used to be the rage. I never did one. And then every airline started eliminating them or devaluing them. Travel Is Free attempts to dig into them again to find some leftover “deals”. He came up with Aeromexico and ANA as the “winners”. But a commenter explained that actually booking them with Aeromexico is just not that feasible and with ANA you are likely going to get murdered by fuel surcharges. But to me the biggest drawback of these are…just putting them together finding all the award availability and then actually booking the darn thing…I just started panicking already lol.
Clickbait hideous post since last time:
Naked Passenger Detained at Chicago O’Hare – View From The Wing
Bloggers love to back links to these blogs, you know, scratch backs and crap like that…
Been a while you guys, one of my favorite songs. I will have the AMAZING lyrics in the comments. The singer Ian Curtis was a brilliant but tormented soul, left this planet way too young…You can see the first glimpse of the band New Order taking shape…
By the time you read this I have run 32 miles this week. Equaling last week’s mileage. But…I have one day left, maybe I’ll jog a mile for the record lol! It’s been a year since I started running, weight loss appears to have stabilized at about 30 lbs. Not bad hey? Yeah I am proud of that! Not too proud when I look at my blog financials, especially now that I have started paying well for top notch content. For you. Enjoy it while it lasts…
And I leave you with this…Me monetizing my blog!
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JOY DIVISION – Heart and Soul [LYRICS]
Instincts that can still betray us
A journey that leads to the sun
Soulless and bent on destruction
A struggle between right and wrong
You take my place in the showdown
I’ll observe with a pitiful eye
I’ll humbly ask for forgiveness
A request well beyond you and I
Heart and soul, one will burn
Heart and soul, one will burn
An abyss that laughs at creation
A circus complete with all fools
Foundations that lasted the ages
Then ripped apart at their roots
Beyond all this goo’s is the terror
The grip of a mercenary hand
When savagery turns all good reason
There’s no turning back,no last stand
Heart and soul, one will burn
Heart and soul, one will burn
Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can
The past is now part of my future
The present is well out of hand
The present is well out of hand
Heart and soul, one will burn
Heart and soul, one will burn
One will burn, one will burn
Heart and soul, one will burn
Buzz is this a call for HELP? Don’t harm yourself! Call the suicide hotline immediately, I think the number there is 1-800-flowers
PS I did not like the ESCAPE search fare thingie…….no HT for you
No Stroopwaffle for you, too
Simple, clean interface, from your starting point, it is REAL time…
It is phucking amazing 🙂
Awesome! Haven’t heard that one in a while. Do you know Jason Molina?
https://youtu.be/malJUMz2A9Y
About as cheerful as Ian Curtis but I love his work to pieces!
Gold!
(Blog owner first comment posts don’t count) 🙂
I was thinking hard about a Delta around the world trip but I got busy and it went away.
Sigh.
Not the Onion you guys…
Passenger Melts Down Over Not Being Served Pepsi – View From The Wing
If this is not required reading for frequent travelers from a self-proclaimed travel thought leader I don’t know what is!
Shame on Doctor of Credit and all other asskissing bloggers for linking to the sad National Enquirer blog of miles
Absolutely agree. Oh, I signed up for his blog when I first got into this crazy world but as time went on, realized what a low quality level of stuff was posted there.
“National Enquirer blog of miles”! Hahaha!
Man, you nailed that one! I’ll always think of it like that from now on!
Having a passenger getting pissed because you do not have any Coke or Pepsi, was not unusual, usually they would then act like a pouting six year old……experienced this a number of times.
But the best one was the guy who went crazy (in coach no less) when we had…I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER on the tray instead of real butter. What an ass, you had to be there.
Speaking of ASSES, the worst tantrum of a passenger I ever seen on board a flight was Ben Gazzara, that’s right, the actor. He stomped and drunkenly swayed around the F/C cabin of a 747, JFK/LAX, ranting out loud to all that “TWA SUCKS” , “This airline sucks” over and over. Why? Because we ran out of imported red wine and had only California Red to serve him. I get vomit in my mouth every time I watch the movie The Big Lebowski and he comes on the screen.
wish they had camera phones back then….boy i got a million of these stories, i should sell them to Gleff and the gang
Will be interested in a blog post from you on:
The X shocking things I witnessed as a Flight Attendant
I am not joking, email me.
XXX MOST SHOCKING…….most of them were inside the plane lav with cute young ladies i would give free drinks to all night flight long. It is amazing what a uniform does to these broads, er ladies………………… XXXShocking to my wife if she ever reads this (it was the 70’s, baby, free love and no drug testing for airline employees, yet) …..always carried a few joints to work and often got hi on the plane w. female pax or crew…..so much for “we are here mainly for passenger safety”.
oh yea, this was before I was married.
We did a RTW a few years ago — probably one of the last booked on AA since I fortuitously ticketed it just a few days before they suddenly eliminated it. It was really the trip of a lifetime. If you can get the time off to make it worthwhile, it’s easily the best value you can get out of your miles. Obviously worth the hassle of pouring over award availability to piece one together.
To me the hassle factor is a deal killer.
Throw on top of that all the maneuvering to avoid them fuel surcharges and…I lost interest fast 🙂
you ever notice Dan’s Deals is always posting about deals on Stamps….who uses Stamps anymore…..I use about 3 stamps a year now and those are for Christmas cards to all my friends
Never send out a birthday or thank you card? Formal invitation?
If you see something posted multiple times there’s probably data behind it that shows people are buying it…
no I text them Happy Birthday….Mom or Dad, I truly am too cheap to waste money on a card let alone a stamp.
No offense Dan, I love you man. Like Don Rickles always would say, ” I kid because I love.” Also I am bored out of my mind today.
Caught on camera: DoorDash driver sips milkshake before delivering it to teen
https://6abc.com/food/doordash-driver-sips-milkshake-before-delivery/5224274/
Missed Connections: Woman Desperately Wants to Find Seatmate From Her Seattle Flight – View From The Wing
If National Enquirer looking for an acquisition…this may be it! #pefectfit