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The Morning Dig: Transport Strikes Roil London and France

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Demolished! 11 beautiful Train Stations that Fell to the Wrecking Ball

Talking Trains With Michael Dukakis, Part 1

What’s A ‘Spooey’? A Field Guide to Freeway Interchanges, Part 1

Chart: America’s Streetcar Renaissance

Ha! Amusingly Defaced Street Signs

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How to Earn Thousands of Extra Flyer Miles – Do You Do This …

One of the easiest ways to save money on travel is to earn points or flyer miles under frequent flyer credit card. This is usually done by flying under favorite airline and using their card in order to earn your flyer points. but most people do not understand is that flyer points are not merely earned by flying on an airline that can be earned in several different ways. here are a few ways that you can earn thousands of extra points without ever flying.

If you are a person that flies on airlines on a consistent basis, you understand and probably enjoy the benefits of using these extra bonus points to travel long under business or vacation trips on a regular basis. Many frequent fliers will use their miles or points to take their family on a vacation or pay for a business trip that can be written off.

People that try to earn flyer miles are often upset by the meager amount that they earn each and every year, sometimes amounting only enough to pay for one airline ticket. however, by doing a few extra things, you can earn double or triple your flyer points by choosing to purchase items at different way.

All of us have eaten out of restaurants. Many of us shop at the most famous malls or even drink coffee at repeatable coffeehouse is such a Starbucks. but many people do not know is that by using particular credit cards for your purchases, you can earn up to triple the amount of flyer miles that you would on a regular basis.

This means you can pay for gas, eat out at a restaurant, go shopping for food at the store, and by the end of the day you may have earned several hundred if not several thousand extra bonus points that you can use toward that family vacation or special getaway but you have been looking forward to.

It’s very easy to do. All you have to do is find a credit card that supports offering points for your airline and you will be well underway to purchasing free plane tickets for you and your family, or that significant other, in the near term. The only caveat is to make sure you pay off those cards by the end of the month or you will not be smiling while you’re vacationing.

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IT, Hi-Tech, Science, Medicine and Architecture News » Search …

I like researching a trip almost as much as I do travelling. It’s hard to stop myself from going out and buying a guidebook the minute I start thinking about a new destination. Instead of searching for a cooking class or just gauging the opinions of real travellers with no interest in selling books, I turn to the Web when it comes to the details of finding a good hotel to checkin.

I will be sitting in front of the computer for the next spare hours clicking one link to another just to discover blogs, forums and chat boards while enjoying my cup of tea. after purchasing my tickets to Madrid and Marrakech for my tip this fall, I went online to search a package for country walks and visits to Berber family homes lead by a Moroccan ecotourism group. I used the guidebook listings first which lead me to a family owned raid, a traditional Moroccan house in Marrakech, and a B&B near Madrid’s Plaza Mayor. On a travel website, reviews are posted which I was able to read before I booked directly on their websites. Useful Web sites come and go, but here are a few that make it to the top of my list. In this site, millions of reviews by travelers about hotels and other types of accommodations in 190 countries are found here. This place is good for crosschecking guidebook recommendations.

It is also of a big help for finding B&Bs and small inns that are not in guidebooks. Traveler advice forums and articles about various destinations are what I like which are fortunately has their links. In some cases, they say that hotels and competitors place a favorable or negative review, but I don’t see that happening right now for quite a number of actual travelers post reviews and photos.

Traveler reviews are posted on this particular website that goes back several years. Information that is obsolete is sometimes included in the overall ratings, which is why you should base your judgment on the most recent reviews. The actual price of the hotel is different although it lists a year round average price for each hotel. what I receive in my inbox are dozens of emails about lodging deals on the less pricey hotels which used to be top expensive ones.

Having a thirst of adventure, being open minded and having fun at the same time while sharing their experiences are what travelers do upon reading the Website’s stories and blogs about destination guides and bargain hotels written by travelers. Looking for a place on where to stay and finding out the best outfit for your Europe trip can be best discovered if you read the latest summer travel tips on the Website. If you don’t have an idea of what is Plodiv, Novi or Tirana, then better skip this site. If your list contains these other Central and Eastern European cities, you would know how fast things are changing.

This site is to be used in searching for a cold beer in Odessa or in looking where to buy a copper coffee set in Sarajevo. Comprehensive guides are both available in PDF forms for free and are printed for selling. Although this publication weren’t in print for awhile, it still continues online with a lot of articles about working and volunteering abroad and tips for tapping into the local culture.

Stories focus on low cost independent, responsible and family travel. Bookmark these three airline search sites for they have proved to be useful. If the drop on prices occurs, you can definitely visit this travel site for its system of tracking airfares and emailing alerts. To know whether you are qualified to avail of the credit that the airline is offering, you first need to buy a ticket.

To avoid all the hassles, just give this site when and where you want to go to and they will in turn provide you with information such as the lowest fare rates, prediction on when prices will drop and websites for booking. not all routes are covered by the price prediction feature. upon visiting this Website, you will know the low cost airlines in getting to foreign cities. Links to discount airlines that serve them will appear on the list of destinations after you have selected the country and the city that you want to go to.

As a person looking for best holiday insurance you should visit that site.You can get the best long term holiday insurance information by visiting this website.

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Analysis and Opinion

Taking Exception

Sunday, 19 April 2009

I found the story, Inside Jobs (Digging Deep, Rowing News, Volume 16, Number 1), hard to agree with and unfair to junior team coaches. in this article, it was suggested that these coaches were solely …

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United 'Starnet Blocking' Still a Problem for Mileage Plus Members …

United ‘blocks’ award seats that their partners offer when it doesn’t want to pay for those seats. They’re the only Star Alliance airline that does this. A Lufthansa seat to Europe might be available with Continental, US Airways, or Air Canada miles but United might claim the seat is unavailable.

I’ve been beating this drum for quite some time, not just here on this blog but in other media like Inside Flyer and Conde Nast Traveler, and I’ve helped to drive coverage elsewhere such as in the Wall Street Journal.

Now, blocking wasn’t much of an issue from early may through early August. It would creep up occasionally, but nothing like in the past.

Take the end of April, for instance, virtually no Lufthansa space that the airline was offering was bookable with United miles. United agents would simply say that the seats were unavailable. And agents still give customers false information, that Lufthansa isn’t offering those seats to United when in fact Lufthansa is offering the seats to all of their partners including United but United had programmed their computers not to ‘see’ the award seats.

United has to pay its partners when members redeem their miles for those seats, at least when United members are redeeming more on the partners than those partners’ members are redeeming for United seats. And Lufhansa availability tends to be quite good, much better than availability on United aircraft, so it winds up costing United Mileage plus a good bit of money. Which they don’t want to spend (even though Mileage plus has been very profitable for years despite the ups ad downs of the airline industry as a whole and of course United Airlines itself).

Every other Star carrier’s miles have thus been more valuable than United’s miles, because other Star carriers have had access to the seats that United refuses to book. What’s more, United’s award chart is no longe rthe value that it once was. They’ve increased the price of awards significantly, first in October 2006 and then in January 2009. now the US Airways chart and the Air Canada Aeroplan chart are both better in most cases. And in several instances international program charts like Asiana and all Nippon and British Midland are better as well (though not in all cases). The United and Continental charts have been made pretty much identical, but Continental doesn’t block partner award space (and Continental has much more generous routing rules) making those Continental Onepass miles far more valuable than United miles.

When United blocking mostly lifted in early may, I thought we might be on the right track given the pending United-Continental merger. I was able to book flights that had always been impossible with United miles, such as first class seats Europe – Bangkok on Thai. there were even reports on Flyetalk of folks booking Air New Zealand’s Los Angeles – London flight in business class, something which hadn’t been allowed by Mileage plus in years.

But blocking is clearly back, take for instance some recent searches where I found award seats on Lufthansa for January 2 and 3.. four seats in business class were available Dusseldorf – Chicago on the former date, and for Frankfurt – Chicago on both dates. United claimed those seats were unavailable.

So blocking is not dead. And it’ll be an interesting question for the future, and to me the biggest single issue as to whether the United-Continental merger is a boon or disaster for collectors of miles in the Mileage plus and Onepass programs.

Now, it’s fully expected that the merger will be consumated this year. But that the mileage programs will continue to operate separately for most of next year. And during that time I imagine it’ll be possible to move miles back and forth between the two programs, the way Delta-Northwest allowed it and the way that US Airways-America West did as well.

During that time, and assuming that Continental doesn’t implement blocking, the entire thing will be a non-issue — United won’t book the award? just move your miles to Onepass.

But what abotu when the merger completes? will they follow United’s or Continental’s lead on this and any number of other issues.

  • Blocking is the biggest one.
  • Routing rules. United requires you to fly to India via the Atlantic, to Australia from North American to the South Pacific without transiting Europe or Asia, and will only let you travel either on a published routing or within the published maximum permitted mileage for a city pair. Continental imposes none of those restrictions. And Continental will allow a stopover and an open jaw whereas United allows only one or the other. so Continental is more generous in all of these respects.
  • One-way awards. United offers it, so far only on their own metal but indicated they’d roll it out to partners as well. Continental doesn’t have this option. I imagine the combined program will offer one-way awards.
  • Award pricing. Continental will let you mix and match classes of service, fly to Europe in first class one-way and back in business class and they’ll price hte award at the average of first and business class. United will take the higher award price.
  • Combinability of Star and non-Star partners on one award. Continental allows it now, United does not.

On the whole I expect the more restrictive United position to prevail, including on expiring miles where United expires them and Continental does not. Mileage plus is the bigger program, no doubt it’ll be the name of the surviving program, and the architecture to be more restrictive already exists so there won’t be an IT issue in implementation. I can only hope that Continental miles don’t devalue by adopting United’s blocking practices.

Now there are of course other issues for frequent flyers. to me, the big aircraft issues are whether the combined carriers keep Economy plus (my bet is they will) and three-cabin international first class (my bet is that they won’t, which saddens me greatly).

And there are of course elite benefits which are different. The programs have already aligned somewhat with unlimited automatic domestic ugprades. And Continental now even has introduced meaningful international upgrade certificates. And United has introduced international mileage ugprades from the lowest fares with a cash co-pay. But there are still significant differences and of course the Onepass top mileage-earned tier is at 75,000 and the United top tier at 100,000. Certainly there will still be a 100,000 mile tier, and I’d be surprised if they followed the US Airways model of having 25/50/75/100.. simply too many tiers even though they don’t want to offend their 75,000 mile flyers. And there will remain a revenue-based true top tier along the lines of GLobal Services, no doubt.

But to me, it all comes back to award blocking. And for lower tiered members, economy plus. that will determine whether the combination is good for members or not. And we’ll have to wait, nervously, to find out.

United 'Starnet Blocking' still a Problem for Mileage plus Members …

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