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November 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: First Class Transatlantic Fares Slashed; High & Inside: Circular Logic (how little-used fares can yield significant savings for Business and First Class travelers heading to the Pacific); United Airlines First Class Award Seat Availability to Hawaii; How to Save Miles on a First Class Award Seat to Hawaii; Virgin America EleVAtes Mileage Program, Slightly; Delta’s Different BusinessElite Seats to Europe Breed Confusion; Free Upgrade: Through WorldPerks Visa deal; Elite Priority-Access Programs Compared; Lufthansa Mileage Promotion; Air France Abandons Los Angeles, Picks Up New Route; Delta’s Double MQM Promotion; Free Upgrade: With US Airways’ Premier World MasterCard; American Airlines’ Secret Code Shared “Inventory Code” Expands First Class Upgrade Opportunities; Free Upgrade: With Special SAS 2-for-1 Deal; and Fare Sleuth: How to Get Up to 72% Off Business Class to South America.
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October 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: Unpublished Airfares to Hawaii (up to 51% off); Evaluating Domestic Mileage Programs for Upgrading to Europe; Where the Mileage Award Seats Are: Mileage Redemption Made Easy; Starwood Spinoff Falls Short; Burn, Buy, or Both; Line Yourself Up for the Ultimate Last-Minute Business Class Upgrade; How Best to Cash in on BA’s Free Companion Ticket Promotion; Business Class Seats for Less on Aer Lingus; Free Domestic Upgrade: Just for Knowing Your Fares; Continental Trims Elite Perks; American Increases Gift Limit; Nice Delta Transfer Bonus; Another Roll-out of New Business Class Seats Completed; and Fall and Winter Savings to Europe.
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September 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: First Class to the Caribbean (When fares are this low, paying cash is the way to go); High & Inside: Eight Ways to Protect Yourself from Mileage Program Pitfalls; What’s Behind United’s Award Accelerator?; Pie in the Sky? (Sorting the details of three major carriers’ expanded code-sharing plan); How to Get United’s New Lie-Flat Sleeper Seat to Hong Kong for Less; Flight Test: OpenSkies’ Business Class & Prem+; Strategy Session: An Advanced Course in Advance Booking; American Imposes More Fees; Delta’s New Three-Layer Cake; More Domestic Premium Seats for Sale; and British Airways All-Business Class Service, New York to London.
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August 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: When the Dollar Goes South, You Should, Too (Great destinations for under $1,000 r/t); How Anyone Can Save 30%+ On Mileage Award Tickets; High & Inside: Surviving the Mileage Award Famine: 13 Ways to Maximize Your Chances of Getting a Seat; The Truth About Continental’s New Business Class Seats; Airline Review: Virgin America’s Mileage Program, Fares, and More; Best Values in Unrestricted Business Class Mileage Awards; Fare Survey: Free Companion Tickets to Europe; Dark Skies Ahead on Qantas (and Others?); Free Upgrades: How to Score With Virgin Atlantic; Cathay Pacific’s New Seats; and Northwest Sticks it to You.
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July 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: The Rise of Premium Economy; Tracking Business Class Fares to Europe (Summer, Holidays, Etc.); Free Upgrade: With the Right Mileage Chart and Credit Card; High & Inside: Discovering Buried Treasure in Award Chart Fine Print; Fare Sleuth: Business Class Slashed to Asia; Time to Bail Out of US Airways; Free Upgrade: With Just One Flight On British Airways (But Through BA’s Other Mileage Program); American Raises Award Levels Slightly; BA Sticks It to Premium Travelers; Free Upgrade: With Diners Club and BA; and Air One Takes Off.
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June 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: Business Class Deals to South America; High & Inside: Getting Continental’s Best Domestic Seats (How to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse); Premium Economy Spotlight: Japan Airlines; Another Look at the Black Card; Silverjet Shuts Down; Virgin America Upgrade Price Hike; US Airways Lures Elite-Status-Qualifying Needy; Buying Opportunity: Star Alliance Carrier Slashes Price of Miles; OpenSkies Open for Business; Lufthansa Launches New All-Business Class Routes; and Qantas’ New Premium Economy Coming to the US.
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May 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: A Hand-Me-Down Bargain (Star Alliance carrier uses its old Business Class seats to make a new Premium Economy cabin); High & Inside: American Airlines’ Identity Crisis: It thinks it’s a Premium Service Carrier—a case of self delusion; New Credit Card Offers Faster Track to Elite Status; Perspective: Lessons Learned from Aloha and ATA Going Bust; Business Class Award Travel for the Price of Coach on US Airways; Europe Summer Fare Update; New Northwest Mileage Purchase Opportunity; New American Mileage Purchase Opportunity; Eos Grounded by Weak Loyalty Plan, Tight Economy; American Airlines Doubles Down; US Airways Finds a New Way to Make You Pay; Delta Elite Status Helper; Singapore Airlines Launches First All-Business Class Flights from US to Asia; Best 2-for-1s to the Caribbean; Korean Airlines Starts LA-São Paulo Service; and SPG50: How to Get Up to 50% Off at Top Hotels.
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April 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: 2-for-1s to Mexico (New Fare Tweak Makes Them A Good Deal); High & Inside: Domestic Bliss? (More comfortable seats on domestic routes have arrived); British Airways Executive Club Forecast: Cloudy Skies (Fare code shift signals possible trouble); US Airways Domestic Upgrades Program; Strategy Session: Being a Card Sharp Nets Elite Status Faster; Three Cheap Discount Premium Economy Deals; Getting the Best Summer Business Class Fare to Europe: The Nine Rules to Follow; Emirates’ Newest Feature is a Wash; Virgin Speeds Security Check; JetBlue Sells Legroom; New AirTran A+ Rewards Offers; and Eos Woos Legacy Frequent Flyers.
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March 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: Business Class Upgrades with British Airways; Upgrading from Business to First Class to Europe this Summer: How to Get the Brass Ring of Flying; Summer Sale Fares to Europe off to Slow Start; Cathay Pacific Expands Amex 2-for-1 Deal; Thai Airways’ In-house 2-for-1 Program; Where to Find American’s New Seats; Delta Expands JFK Routes, Mileage Availability; Virgin America: Hard to Live With, Hard to Live Without; Seabourn Offers 2-for-1 Business Class Air; New BA London-NYC Connection; KLM’s Best Seats in the House; Another Path to Elite on United; Northwest Raises You 10%; Great Air France Promotion—with a Catch; SAS Stand-by Upgrades; and A Bright Spot in Delta’s Dark Program.
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February 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: New Low-Cost Upgrade Strategy Via British Airways and Starwood Starpoints (for travel on American, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines and more); Great Business Class Alternative to Asia; Fast Upgrade via United Bonus; US Airways’ Caribbean Promotion; High & Inside: Starwood Drastically Reduces Starpoints Purchase Limit (And the way to get around it); Premium Economy Investment ‘Paying Off’; AA Selling Elite Status; BA’s “OpenSkies” Set For Takeoff; US Airways Mileage Sale; The Aircraft Rotation Game; Under the Microscope: Free First Class Upgrade on Malaysia Airlines; American Goes Broadband; ‘Frequency’ Program Analysis: All-Business Class vs. Legacy Carriers; Delta Transfer Bonus; Strategy Session: How Anyone Can Use Mexicana’s Mileage Purchase Deal to Almost Any Destination; and Corporate Corner: BA’s Other Mileage Program Offers Free Upgrade.
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January 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE: MAXjet’s Tailspin: Proof that Passenger Experience Trumps Price; New Business Class Strategy to Asia for the Price of Coach (on a better seat, too); Low-Cost Alternative to Business Class to South Pacific; More Business Class Seats for the Price of Coach—Europe; More Domestic First Class Fares Reduced; Northwest’s Debased Mileage Currency; Mileage Availability on New Air France Los Angeles-London Flights; 50,000 Bonus Miles Offer from Spirit Airlines; Time to Think Mileage Transfer; Be Careful with Singapore’s MasterCard Discount Program; Singapore’s New Houston-Moscow-Singapore Route; Northwest’s Guaranteed First Class Upgrade; A Convoluted but Cheaper Way to South Africa; Alaska Airlines’ Unique Loyalty Program; Air New Zealand ‘Concierge in the Sky’; and Time to Redeem Your Miles.
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December 2007
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IN THIS ISSUE: Hot Ticket: Great Caribbean Fares, Mostly from the Northeast and Midwest; HIGH & INSIDE: More Trans-Atlantic Business Class Fare Turbulence; Mileage Purchase Alarm Clock; FAST TRACK TO ELITE: The Three Best ‘Elite Status’ Tips I May Ever Give You (Whether you fly frequently or not); China Southern Airlines’ New Premium Cabins; Jet Airways Launches Third New York-India Route; SEAT CONNOISSEUR: SWISS Seats Vary Significantly; Premium Economy Upgrades Now Available at the Gate; and TEST DRIVE: Virgin America Delivers, but Plays Hard to Get.
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