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Air Canada, years after spinning off its loyalty program, wants to do it again. Lol for Aeroplan, about to lose control of the miles earned from Air Canada. Lol again. What this means is likely an end to all such plans in the future as you will have to be real morons to buy these programs!
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Final part of the Delta CEO interview is focused on the bitching towards Middle Eastern “Cheater” Airlines. Was a violin playing in the background?
No, you most likely won’t pay just $99 to Iceland on WOW Air ok? Post breaks out all the fees nicely.
When reselling makes it to the mainstream. My views about reselling have not changed. It IS a full time job and you are dependent on behemoths like Amazon and EBay. Is it worth it or put in the time you spend on it to learn a skill that will be more marketable down the road? I could go on but…I have more to cover!
I was wondering about that the other day and I was always not too happy that Sprint appeared to be way behind in allowing its customers to use their cell phone abroad. Not anymore, yes! This post lays out all the different options you have on roaming options for US travelers.
Anatahan: The island where one woman reigned as a “queen” over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended. I had never heard of this wild story. Anatahan is part of the Northern Mariana Islands. We all did not know that, now we do!
This is so hilarious! Angry Mom Accidentally Texts 35 year old guy instead of her daughter, and it escalates from there! WTF is wrong with people today!
Your personal finance fix: Testosterone is the enemy of smart investing decisions. In my experience, this is true. In general.
2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest. Must click!
I am sorry. More North Korea. I can’t help it, been obsessed about this country for a very long time. Childhood in North Korea.
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I have no idea what The Free-quent Flyer will post. But I will probably read it. And may like it. Like this one: Use Korean Air SKYPASS to piece together low-lever Delta award availability.
Wow, that was fast! If you buy gift cards with your Altitude Reserve, you are a dead credit card holder walking…
I’ll just leave this here…
Ok, just one comment. This is a first, combining all these words together: “Brand New Biggest Ever Limited Time Signup Bonuses for American AAdvantage Credit Cards”. Wow, if this is not salesmanship I don’t know what is. I guess you need to do that to sell 60k AA miles these days. Disclosure: These same offers are available with my links. Good luck finding any award seats…you’ll need it!
Ok, one more. Still shaking my head over MMS’s Be Like the Sky post. Only 3 comments, one a reply by D. Sad!
Ok, just to string three together…So, is it only me who thinks that anything labeled as “FTG Staff” is just that no one wants to put their real name down because they are just not very proud of such posts? Asking for a friend.
I watched most of the San Antonio Spurs severe beating of the Houston Rockets on Game 6 of the playoffs. Wow, that was a hell of a beating!
And I leave you with this…WTF!
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You guys are “fake news” I got gold because I told you so…;)
Have you heard the term gold, meaning first place? I hadn’t either. I thought of it a few days ago and thought it sounded pretty good.
Bitcoin is the new gold.
Have you guys heard the term:
Priming the pump?
🙂
The best words don’t exist until uttered by Trump.
Preach it brother, preach it.
Is that like choking the chicken?
“At Macy’s, the money from branded credit cards accounted for 39 percent of the company’s total profit of $1.9 billion last year, up from 26 percent in 2013, according to an analysis by Morgan Stanley. Bloomingdale’s, which is owned by Macy’s, has pushed to increase the number of credit card customers that workers are expected to sign up each month, according to the store workers’ union.
At Kohl’s, the profit from plastic totaled 35 percent, up from 23 percent, over that same period. At Target, it made up 13 percent of total earnings, up from 11 percent in 2013.
Amazon, by comparison, derives only about 3 percent of its total operating profit from its credit cards.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/business/dealbook/retailer-credit-cards-macys-losses.html
Yeah, it is just very sad…
So many victims out there…
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/63etps/the_reddit_tinnitus_cure_attempted_by_people_with/
Not sure if you’ve come across this, but if you haven’t, and it works, I’d like my lifetime gold status and cash prize please.
Brenton,
Thanks a lot for sending this.
I will try it tonight. I am skeptical about these things but hey, what do I have to lose!
First, I need to catch up with the blogs and pick some for tomorrow’s post and just catch up on a bunch of things…
Really looking forward to trying this out, thanks for remembering it!
If this works, your lifetime gold status is yours and you name your cash prize.
ToBeContinued
It was an awesome game! Go Spurs!
Without Parker. Without Leonard. Complete beating. Impressive!
Laughed and stopped reading the WOW article at “WOW Air flies mostly Boing 737 aircraft”… wtf? Where do all these “experts” come from?
So many experts out there 🙂
I wanted to highlight the fees up the wazzoo, this ain’t no $99 flight!
The times I’ve compared WOW prices, they really weren’t competitive to legacy options especially considering I’d need either a short road trip or a positioning flight in conjunction.
I never have tried any USBank cards and was wary of the Altitude card. Although I rarely MS, USB just makes me nervous.
Do you not have an Alaska link?
Agreed on Wow. Not WOWed yet.
US Bank is weird. They would not approve me for the Club Carlson business version and I went back and forth with them several times. Basically, they got tired of me so they gave it to me. They are really weird bank to deal with. They make Barclasy look normal lol.
Never really checked to see Alaska link. But I see one:
CARD TYPE/Bank of America
I think this is the best offer? Not sure, definitely not an expert on Alaska cards!
Limited Time Offer – Buy 1 ticket, get 1 for just the taxes and fees with Alaska’s Famous Companion Fare™ Offer.
Get 30,000 bonus miles after you make $1,000 or more in purchases within the first 90 days of your account opening.
Get another Alaska’s Famous Companion Fare™ from $121 ($99 plus taxes and fees from $22) every year on your account anniversary valid on Alaska and Virgin America flights booked on alaskaair.com.
Can someone let me know if it is best offer. If yes, I must tell BestOffersPatrol not to miss them anymore! 🙂
I”m not totally sure about AS either but am thinking of getting it one of these days. May as well give AS a shot as.
Stole this from some forum; too funny.
Trump isn’t bright enough to be able to use a recording device, so instead he decided to write what Comey said on his hand. What with his hand being so small all he’s got from Comey is, “Hi Mr Pres …”
This dude is moron hombre.
Jeff Sessions is bad hombre.
I could go on but must schedule blog post for tomorrow. It revolves around the Holocaust, world history, bear markets, laptop bans and evil Facebook…
blah blah Fascist blah blah Hitler blah blah racist. I thought the righties were bad w the Hillary Server and Bengazi. Holy Identiy Politics Buzz.