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Now here is a slightly odd one. British Airways (note, BA and not AA) is offering 10,000 or 20,000 bonus Avios when you book yourself on the American Airlines new service between Dublin and New York JFK. You get the 20,000 Avios points for a return [...]
I received some good news by email yesterday - I have been approved for the American Airlines credit cards with the fantastic 35,000 miles sign-up bonus! I was a little worried, to be honest, since my BMI MasterCard has a substantial £20,000 credit limit, and I wasn’t sure [...]
If you ever try to discuss miles and points with your friends, you may find their eyes glaze over, or they grumble that ‘it’s all too complicated’ or something similar …. Next time the subject comes up, send them a link to this post. The pictures [...]
Hertz is running a couple of decent promotions at the moment which are worth a look if you are planning to hire a car, either for business or over the May holiday weekends. The first promotion is for Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, earning 2,000 miles per [...]
I did have todays posts already lined up. However, it is 6.25am on Saturday and I have been woken up by an over-enthusiastic 23 month old. He is watching Fifi & The Flowertots, I am checking my e-mail. And – tucked away at the bottom [...]
As I discussed yesterday, this is the 1st of my series of posts looking at the major UK loyalty credit cards and discussing whether of not they are worth applying for. These posts will be linked to the relevant sections of the ‘Credit Cards Update‘ page. [...]
I first wrote on this topic back in November. However, with major changes (of the bad sort) to the American Express Platinum and British Airways American Express sign-up bonuses this month, and the Starwood and Miles & More cards also having a lower bonus now [...]
If you’ve got an American Airlines AAdvantage account, you can earn 500 easy AA miles by updating your personal details at this website. The deadline for completing it is February 28th. However …. read the small print before you do it. You are basically giving [...]
The US Airways / American Airlines merger – which has been on the cards since American filed for bankruptcy last year, has now been confirmed. The BBC story is here. The merger will take a while – quite a while, probably a year – before [...]
It’s back again! Via View from the Wing, American Airlines is offering a 50% bonus when you buy miles. The deal is valid until 28th February. I am not an expert on buying AA miles, but View from the Wing rates this as about as [...]
A quick heads up that AA has launched another bonus when you buy their miles. Full details are here. Until January 31st, you can receive up to 15,000 bonus miles when you buy miles. At the end of the scale, you receive 15,000 bonus miles [...]
Via Lucky, American AAdvantage is giving out 500 AA miles for ’liking’ both American Airlines and American AAdvantage on Facebook. You also need to complete a small survey. The quickest way to do this is to log in to Facebook and then click on the three links above, in [...]
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