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Good reference post on them travel free fee credits.
Here is an Iberia Avios cheat sheet. I think British Airways should consolidate all them Avios they have flying around in one program. But then again these are the guys who voted for Brexit. Shut up, we voted for Trump too smh!
Here is a post to help you eat dim sum better.
The Mosul Eye blogger comes out. Blogging is important and this guy is a hero uncovering the ISIS atrocities undercover. WOW!
I need this: How To Stop Binge Eating!
Follow your dreams! Old man crashes through garage, YES!
Excellent personal finance article, on the big picture: The Never-Ending Foreclosure. Important observations. Lets hope we all learned some lessons…
You probably have seen these before but…they are still awesome! 8 of the world’s most incredible sports venues.
7 Techniques to Improve Your Memory. #1 technique to make it worse? Smoke weed 🙂
The abandoned hotels of Kupari in Croatia.
BLOG BUZZ
This section is for advanced level hobbyists and veteran blog readers & personal rants & stuff
I am halfway through booking my return trip from Greece. I found a 40k coach award on Delta from Amsterdam to Detroit. But I must now find me a way to get to Amsterdam in time. Thinking about flying Transavia, anyone flown it before? If it is canceled or delayed…I may be screwed! I may need a hotel at Amsterdam AMS airport too, any ideas? I stayed at the Hilton before its renovation. It was a wild story, maybe one day I will blog about it…
Update: I can fly Transavia for about 140 euros (with exit row seat) and get to AMS (hopefully) the night before and spend the night in an AMS hotel before I catch my Delta flight around 3 pm the next day. Or burn about 25k UA miles and about $125 usd (phucking close-to-ticketing $75 fee!) and make it really interesting flying to Frankfurt on Aegean, down to Istanbul on Turkish, spend overnight at the IST Business Lounge and get to AMS the next morning around 10.40 am, all in Business class. Hmmmmm, what would you do? My fear is, with winter weather, I get delayed getting in to Amsterdam and then missing my Delta flight. That would SUCK big time as I split my tickets…I just could not hold off finishing almost all of my Delta miles finally with this opportunity to get home for New Year’s Eve!
Miles/points burned to date now stands at 861,500. I am not sure I can get to 1 million…
My wife is visiting her best friend in Honolulu after burning miles of course. AA miles that is too! We are burning it up! Doing all the driving daughter around all by myself is not easy. So I eat out any chance I get to make me feel better lol.
Welcome to The Point Me To The Plane blog in the infamous Blogs To Ignore list. They have been on an unbelievable pumping streak and now they started to do Kardashian like posts imitating, no doubt, the Travel thought leader. Is the truth demeaning? Only goes to show you how this blog space has gone to shit!
Speaking of pumping and Kardashian like posts, here is just a TINY subset of what my eyes see reviewing this space. I am doing so much laundry from so much barfing. I could slip in my links right about here but I just can’t do it. I am going to get tired of this one day you guys…
Dress with Amex Gold card, how sad is that! (HT: PFD on Twitter).
And I leave you with this…I could be making moronic posts faking my enthusiasm with exclamation marks and taking pics with money…all so I can trick ya all to click on my credit card clicks to increase my pathetic conversion ratio but.I.just.can’t.do.it. So, lets laugh together with this Despacito Chicken Version okay?
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Starting the week off 1st.
Travel thought leader posted another Kardashian clickbait post yesterday about a breastfeeding mother…Today his mini me Live and Let’s Fly posted:
Spirit Airlines Justified in Kicking Off Breastfeeding Mother
can you believe these guys?
Hey, hi Ingy
Gary is still breastfeeding? At his age?
Slow day, but third ain’t too shaby.
The LH Miles & More story was first blogged at Loyalty Lobby….
Of course the leader posted about it and HT’ed some obscure Tweeter account…
Oh, regarding breast feeding…he blogs about what interests him…
This space…
Surprised it wasn’t Alan H.
Good morning. The foreclosure article was helpful in pointing out the recontracting that took advantage of trusting people. It certainly benefited the fraudster to echo the magic phrase ‘prices never go down’.
What? Is it not about personal responsibility first?
Trying to get Ingy out of his basement 🙂
I read the Mosul Eye article yesterday, amazing story! Hats off to that guy.
Yeah…talk about making a difference #blownaway
I added the missing pic with all the REAL pumping in the post!
I would blame the TBB intern but I don’t have one lol.
The problem with the memory aid techniques is that I first have to remember the technique! Some good ideas though may have to try.
I saw that Spirit incident somewhere else, looks like the usual he said-she said clusterphuck – no idea who’s right, don’t really care – but I guess Thought Leader and Mini Me know all!
Actually based on their posts, they know everything about (1) what all happened on any given airline incident (2) how best to run an airline (3) how best to run a loyalty program (4) aviation security (5) aviation safety (6) etc. I wish I were as smart as they are.
Breaking news from Gary:
Passenger Pulled Out of Lavatory for Smoking, Threatens to Kill Everyone on the Plane
So after Gary copied Loyalty Lobby on another airline going revenue based (in which he has been flat out WRONG again)…One Mile at a Time and then of course always late The Points Guy copied him…shaking my head.
That’s comedy gold right there!
Now watch this post by Secret Flying (hey, it is about the clicks!) be copied from you know who…
VIDEO: Chinese flight attendant suspended after eating leftover flight meals
Well, that didn’t take long!
I remember eating a leftover pax meal, then the passenger woke up and wanted his meal, sorry Charlie, you snooze you lose
This is getting absolutely ridiculous…
Not to be left behind, these “experts” are competing who will break earth shattering moves…
Not to be left behind, we now have The Points Guy going first (I think) with:
Plane Diverts After Angry Woman Is Denied Champagne
Wow…amazing! No doubt she wanted to pay with her Chase Sapphire Preferred card. Or wait, was in’t it that amazingly shitty BofA card?
I need to stop this…
I she would have had the Chase Sapphire Reserve card, she would have had lounge access and could have filled up on bubbly before boarding…problem avoided to begin with! See, these bloggers are really helping to promote world peace!
“The Little Blue Pill: An Oral History of Viagra
The story of the drug that changed sex and made billions.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-11/the-little-blue-pill-an-oral-history-of-viagra
Great article, coming up tomorrow!
Thanks.
Took Transavia from Prague to Orly round trip last year. They are a budget airline, for sure, and their inflight selling will make you think you’re on RyanAir, but I had a very small carry on that counted as a personal item and the flights were on time and very pleasant. Flew Air France within Europe and it was on par. Would definitely take Transavia again.
Great. I went with Transavia. Too much to risk with the other option. Got me an exit row for 6 euros 🙂
~987.5k burned year to date, not going to make it to 1M either…
I think I am going to lose on this…
Unless I go and burn some Avios DTW-NYC in 2018 🙂
Wow – I remember that AMEX dress. I did not realize that it was so long ago – according to Wikipedia that was in 1995. Seems that it sold at auction for $12,650 and is in the National Gallery of Victoria.
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Express_Gold_card_dress_of_Lizzy_Gardiner )
I might have to go see the next time that I am in Melbourne.
Witnessing history 🙂
I prefer the transparent cards.
Hmmmm, you posted the Viagra story above…coincidence?
re AMS hotel:
I’ve been happy with the Hyatt Place there.
Convenient, clean, free brekkie, free Wi-Fi, helpful employees, free shuttle & usually a bit cheaper than some others.
Leaning towards the Hilton. It is renovated since my last time there and it is attached to it, no shuttles!
Thanks for the feedback.
I would not cut it so close. Btw you can avoid the close in fee by booking far out and calling in to change.
I am aware of the fee shortcut but I am afraid I do it and by the time I call it is gone!
Once it happens once to you…
This guy is really something…WOW just WOW!
American Diverts to Denver So Passengers Can Use Bathroom While Pit Crew Blasts Out Poop – View From The Wing
Fascinated by shit! So Thought Leaderish smh.