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American Airlines AAdvantage 2016 changes with new award charts on aa.com

American Airlines published its new AAdvantage 2016 changes on aa.com today, along with new AAdvantage award charts for American Airlines flights and partner flights. The changes leaked last week are confirmed with a move to ticket revenue based redeemable miles

Marriott International buys Starwood Hotels

This morning the news posted of a major hotel chain merger with Marriott buying out Starwood Hotels in a takeover acquisition. I never saw Marriott International mentioned in 2015 during all the speculation of a Starwood acquisition, but I have

Swiss $723 SFO to Mumbai, India. Analysis of LH/LX Economy K class for UA award miles

Swiss Airlines and United Airlines, along with Lufthansa and Air Canada, offer a low $700s round trip fare from San Francisco to Mumbai BOM. This article  evaluates different ways to ticket and credit flight options to India among the different

Pullman Miami Airport 4x points Le Club Accorhotels

Pullman hotels are classified by STR Global as Upper Upscale hotel market segment, the same market segment with Hyatt Regency, Sheraton and Westin, Hilton Hotel and Marriott Hotel brands. Pullman Hotels are 4-star and 5-star hotels, mostly in urban metropolitan

What if AA goes revenue-based? This dummy’s guide.

American Airlines AAdvantage has changes in store for 2016 with a revenue-based model for earning frequent flyer redeemable miles, according to Jon in NYC, who posted leaked AAdvantage 2016 changes on TravelingBetter.com. Here is what a restructured American Airlines AAdvantage

Hyatt and Starwood Hotels compared by brand room rates

The news of Hyatt Hotels takeover talks for Starwood Hotels had me thinking about how the two hotel chains compare for hotel brands, number of hotels in each brand and average daily rates for each brand. Here are tables I

Out of Great Smoky and into DoubleTree Park Vista Gatlinburg

Summer travels kept me from writing up the the last night of my southeastern states road trip from Orlando, Florida to Knoxville, Tennessee Airport via Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the first week of June 2015. My last night

Radisson Americas 30% off stays Nov 20 to Jan 30, 2016

Radisson Hotels have a limited time offer sale of 30% off Best Available Rate for bookings made by November 10 for stays in the Americas from November 20, 2015 through January 30, 2016. Participating hotels have specific dates for the

IHG PointBreaks Oct 26–Jan 31 bookable and IHG buy points bonus offer to Nov 6

The list of IHG Rewards Club hotels with PointBreaks reward nights at 5,000 points per night are now bookable. Even if you do not currently have IHG Rewards Club points, you can buy IHG points at a discount through November

Visualizing Travel Before Bookings

The Stockholm to San Francisco American Airlines round trip ticket I purchased yesterday was not the same ticket I had planned to book the day before. The airports were the same, but after spending days visualizing my 2016 travels and