Click the “like” button on the facebook Internet web site of Starwood Preferred Guest and you will not only receive 100 free Starwood Preferred Guest frequent guest loyalty program points, but also...
Earn 1,000 Bonus Priority Club Points Every Night
May 16, 2012 by Brian Cohen
Through June 1, 2012, register early on facebook to start earning 1,000 bonus Priority Club frequent guest loyalty program points or 200 bonus airline frequent flier loyalty program miles for every qualifying night you stay at InterContinental Hotel Group properties in greater than 100 countries around the world. If you are not a member of facebook, then...
Taste of London Ticket Competition for FlyerTalk Members: Will You Win?
May 14, 2012 by Brian Cohen
Once again, British Airways is delighted to support Taste of London this year from June 21, 2012 through June 24, 2012 — and, as in previous years, two pairs of tickets for Taste of London for each session are being offered by British Airways. The dates and times are as follows...
Frequent Fliers Charged Higher Airfares?
May 16, 2012 by Brian Cohen
FlyerTalk members are furious, as television station WCCO — also known as CBS Minnesota — reports that Delta Air Lines allegedly charges its SkyMiles frequent flier loyalty program members higher airfares than customers who do not have — or do not log into their — SkyMiles accounts at the official Internet web site of Delta Air Lines. A spokesman for Delta Air Lines reportedly released the following statement...
$1,952 Round-Trip Business Class Airfares to London or Manchester
May 16, 2012 by Brian Cohen
You read it correctly — this is not a mistake airfare. If you can book your airfare anytime from today through Friday, May 18, 2012 and you can fly from the United States to London or Manchester on British Airways from May 26, 2012 through June 9, 2012, your round-trip airfare in Club World business class will be as low as $1,952.00 — including taxes, fees and surcharges — thanks to the Jubilee Business Class Sale offered by British Airways, which celebrates...
Frequent Flier Loyalty Programs and the Law
May 14, 2012 by Brian Cohen
There is plenty of evidence of FlyerTalk members discussing the rumors of the future of specific frequent flier loyalty programs, only to be frustrated when airline company officials neither confirm nor deny those rumors. One example is...
What Hotel Operators Must Think in Designing and Maintaining Rooms
May 16, 2012 by Brian Cohen
I will let the following content posted by FlyerTalk member TransGlobal001 speak for itself...“I’ve come to imagine what hotel operators must think in designing and maintaining hotel rooms. If there is a meeting, it goes something like this:
Pilot Error in Sukhoi Superjet 100 Crash in Indonesia?
May 15, 2012 by Brian Cohen
Within the past week, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar during a 30-minute test flight in Indonesia designed to promote the aircraft as a regional jet and to bolster the confidence that the Russian-built aircraft is significantly safer today than its predecessors — but the aircraft wound up plowing into the side of a mountain, reportedly killing all 45 people on board. Bodies of the 37 passengers and eight crew members are still being identified at this time in the tedious and difficult recovery mission. Based on...
Pilot Strikes: It is Not a Good Time to Travel to India Right Now
May 13, 2012 by Brian Cohen
Fourteen additional Air India flights have been cancelled as the strike by its pilots enters its seventh day, while the pilots of Kingfisher Airlines — or, as some FlyerTalk members seem to call it, “the airline that just won’t die” — went on strike as well. Air India is not giving in to the purportedly exorbitant demands of the pilots, which is supposedly the crux of the strike which has resulted in the cancellation of many flights and cost a lot of money, as well as the reported firing of dozens of pilots and the refusal to recognize their union. At least one FlyerTalk member has wondered...






