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Earn a 35% Delta SkyMiles bonus when you transfer Membership Rewards points to your Delta SkyMiles account between August 1 and September 15, 2005. Transfer Membership Rewards points today and start planning your next Delta getaway.
Basically, that means you can convert one Membership Reward point into 1.35 Delta Skymiles. All the points you convert will accrue and then you get the 35% bonus according to this:
Bonus miles will be posted up to 8 weeks from the expiration date of the promotion, September 15, 2005.
Here are additional terms & conditions as well as the link to register and transfer your points.
CNN definitely made this sound a lot worse than it was: Hotels said to change sheets less often makes you think you’re going to have to sleep in the dried sweat of half a dozen previous guests… what it really means is that on extended stays, hotels aren’t going to change your sheets everyday. I would prefer they didn’t change it everyday, think of all the detergent washed down the drain, all the water wasted, and all the fabrics being worn from constant washes. Shareholders and Mother Earth smile at these decisions.
“It’s a growing industry trend,” Steve Samson, an executive with Marriott International (Research), the world’s largest hotel chain, told the paper. Marriott’s more upscale, full-service hotels began switching to every three days earlier this year, the paper reports.
Privately-held Global Hyatt Corp. went from changing each guest’s sheets daily to every four days last year, according to the paper.
Some leading chains, including Holiday Inn, do not have uniform policies on sheet changes across the chain, according to a survey of companies by the paper. Some lodging companies, including Sheraton, Westin and St. Regis, all owned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (Research), still make daily sheet changes.
If you’ve ever flown in recent years and had the pleasure of going through security checkpoint lines at different airports, you’ll notice that the logistics at each airport varies greatly. At some you have long tables where folks can unload laptops and other electronics as they wait for people to go through the metal detectors. At other, the tables are short and so there is a mad rush of laptop bags unzipping and coins being removed from pockets before people are shoved through the detectors. Well, USAToday published an article today about just that.
Jason Womack of In The Life had a very eye-opening post today referencing an article from USA Today about how hotels, either purposefully or by accident, overcharge patrons. Both articles reference a review by Corporate Lodging Consultants, a company that negotiates hotel rates for various companies; of one of their client’s charges within the last twelve months. The results? 11.6% of the bills were incorrectly charged with an average overpayment of $11.35 a night. Extend that to 1.4M rooms a night, the US average, and that means approximately $500M in overcharges.
As competition increases, so do perks and conveniences and competition in the car rental business is as high as ever. CNNMoney had an article today with a list of all the popular perks that Alamo, Budget, Hertz, and Enterprise offer their rental customers. Hertz even offers a free tank of gas! Recently I rented a mini-van from Thrifty and found that it even has Sirius Satellite radio! Read on for a list of some of the great perks.
This will be the first in a set of articles that will simply list the various airline partnership networks and their member airlines to help you find other airlines that may accept the frequent flyer miles you’ve accrued on your major airline program. This article will list the airlines in the Delta Skyteam Alliance as well as Delta specific partners (that aren’t part of the alliance) and briefly how your miles accrue in the program.
Singapore Airlines is ahead of the curve on this one: It was reported by CNN that the airline would be offering language learning programs on their in-flight entertainment delivery system: KrisWorld. SIA and an American language school, Berlitz International, to produce crash-course learning programs in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. If you’ve ever flown from Asia to practically anywhere, you’ll know that the double digit flight hours seem to pass like an eternity. This is a very intelligent idea and it’s a wonder it hadn’t been thought of earlier. How many movies can you possible watch before you feel like you’re wasting your time?
I ran across a great article at SmarterTravel.com about different ways to obtain elite status with various airlines. It details how you should go about finding about the frequent flyer programs, learning the point minimums for each status, and, if you don’t feel that you can fly enough to accrue the necessary points; you can always try to complete a “challenge.” The article is a must read for those who are trying to reach elite status but are banging their heads against the walls at the high flight mileage minimums.
In a USAToday article (printed at Yahoo! Finance), it was reported that four major airlines (American, United, Delta and Northwest) will be raising rates because of high fuel costs. United jacked up rates by 3% across the board, Northwest increased domestic prices by 3%, and American and Delta added a $5 increase on each way of a flight. Only Continental stood pat. These big airlines are being attacked from both sides as they try to extricate themselves from their financial problems - rising costs versus low prices of their low-budget competitors… a rock and a hard place.
The only positive for these airlines is that the flights across the Atlantic have risen along with demand, especially during the June - August timeframe when discounts are impossible. Also of note, domestic fares have increased seven times since February, mostly in areas where the discount airlines don’t service. The article is worth reading as it discusses how the prices have fluctuated the past few quarters.