Travel secrets

| Europe Holiday Discounts | Most major airlines have just announced excellent sales on Business Class tickets from the U.S. to Europe over the long Thanksgiving weekend and the Christmas-to-New Year’s holidays. But you’ve got to move quickly, because the sale seats are limited (and you’ll need to be flexible in your dates and flight [...]

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| British Airways Deal | Last year, British Airways offered the best mileage bonus ever: 100,000 miles for members of its Executive Club program who signed on for the co-branded British Airways-Chase Signature Visa credit card. Just as quickly and mysteriously as this tantalizing offer surfaced, it disappeared, leaving procrastinators much wiser but mileage poorer. [...]

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| Flying High To China | Notes from the Green Travel Guru’s flight log…. The secret to getting the most from your frequent flier miles is not only accumulating them in the fastest ways, it’s also spending them well. I want to reap the greatest value … and, boy, am I. Remember my First Principle [...]

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| US Airways Deal | Green Guru says, don’t buy rewards miles directly from airlines. Usually, they’re a bad deal. Except when they’re not! Once in a while, airline frequent flier programs make an offer that is too good to be missed. US Airways recently announced one of these—it’s the real deal, but it ends [...]

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| Meet GTG’s Guru | So you’ve decided on your ideal next trip: maybe it’s to a breathtaking archipelago in the South Pacific before the rising oceans reclaim it, the dreamscape backwaters of Kerala in southern India, or even a catch-up visit to brash, irrepressible New Yawk, New Yawk. Now comes the hard part: getting [...]

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Frequent flier programs–like the entire airline industry–have recently hit turbulence. They haven’t totally altered course, but they are undergoing major changes. The latest mega-merger—between United and Continental—will mean a new mileage program for those carriers’ passengers. Meanwhile, recent new marketing agreements between American, British Air and Iberia, and between American and Jet Blue, will inevitably [...]

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