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In this post, we’ll show you how to save money by using the “Hidden City” trick when purchasing an airline ticket. But first:
What is a “Hidden City”?
First thing to understand: Non-stop tickets to an airline’s hub are often disproportionately expensive. The airline understands that there is a premium to be had for offering more convenience and they try to capture this premium when they can.
Next is that a lot of factors go into pricing airline tickets, the most important 2 to understand for hidden city ticketing is that airlines generally price tickets based upon the market (not the distance flown) and that airlines are [...]
Hurry and book now for some awesome fares to Hawaii! The Fare Deal Alert is reporting that Delta has dropped their prices by 40% to 53% off to fly to Hawaii!
The Deal
Fly from Charlotte-CLT to Kauai, Hawaii-LIH for $517.90 from now until June 2015.
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How to Get It
Head to Google.com/Flights Search for flights from Charlotte-CLT to Kauai-LIH Play around with the calendar to select your desired dates: From Google Flights you can click to book on Delta directly Booking through Delta.com will allow you to cancel within 24 hours for freeDon’t Forget!
Book fast! These fares could [...]Other posts in this series:
Top 7: Longest domestic US flights Top 10: Longest Domestic Flights in the World Top 12: Longest Non-Stop Delta Flights in the World Top 15: Longest Fifth Freedom Flights in the World Top 10: World’s longest non-stop flightsEmirates has been more and more aggressive with Fifth Freedom routes (read more on Fifth Freedom routes here: What are “Fifth Freedom” Airline Flights and Routes?)– probably the most active of any other airline in recent times. But, that just might be our skewed perception from all of the recent press; within about a year, Emirates:
was approved for a Fifth Freedom route from Milan-MXP to New York-JFK – Early [...]After burning lots of miles and points over the past few months (read: All about our Honeymoon trip: Bali, Jakarta, Singapore and the Maldives), it was time to start racking up them again for the next trip. Here was our haul:
Our Haul
McCown:
AAdvantage World MasterCard / Citi Platinum Select = 50,000 American Airlines AAdvantage Miles + $0 annual fee 1st year US Airways Premier World MasterCard = 40,000 US Airways Dividend miles + $89 annual fee Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express = 30,000 Starpoints + $0 annual fee 1st yearJeffrey:
AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard / Citi Executive = 100,000 American Airlines AAdvantage Miles + [...]So I came across an article the other day that had some cool retro airplane cabins and spotted this photo:
Source: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/3969134/
For those (like me) that needed to do a double take: yes, that is a piano installed on a Boeing 747! Sometime around 1972, American Airlines introduced their new “LuxuryLiner” fleet; here’s a commercial hitting the highlights:
Here’s a shot of the entire lounge:
Source: [...]
As I wrote about here (How-to: Book US Airways Flights With British Airways Avios), US Airways officially joined the Oneworld Alliance a few months ago. Joining the ranks of American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, LAN, etc., US Airways is now eligible for bookings with Avios. This opens up lots of opportunities for maximizing short, non-stop flights out of US Airways’ hub cities: Charlotte-CLT, Philadelphia-PHL, Phoenix-PHX and Washington-Reagan-DCA.
First in this series was Charlotte, North Carolina-CLT, then Philadelphia-PHL and now we’ll look at Washington, D.C. It turns out that the Washington-Reagan hub has the fewest international [...]
Note: These are bookable now. Don’t miss out on Flying Blue’s summer promo, which allows you to book Air France/KLM awards for 25-50% less than normal in September & October 2014:
The DealAward bookings on Air France/KLM routes have been reduced by 25-50% for travel between September 1 – October 31, 2014.
For those of us sitting in ‘Merica, we’ll be most interested in:
REGION—- USA CITY———————- Dallas-DFW to Europe— CABIN—– Economy— 1-way— 12,500— Round-trip 25,000
All destinations below. Note: Everything is [...]
Check out a video of a time-lapse we shot on our balcony. The video covers ~15 hours of day overlooking the Charleston Harbor. Photos were taken at 30 second intervals.
Hurry and book now to take advantage of the Air France/KLM Flying Blue Promo Awards to travel to Europe this summer!
Until June 30, you can book this promo award which will give you 50% off the typical award rate between Houston-IAH and Europe and knock it down to just 25,000 miles per person in Economy.
Head here to book your travel: Flying Blue Promo Awards
So, where will 25,000 miles take you? Basically, any of these cities in Europe are eligible (if you can find award space):
Because the only eligible routes are Air France/KLM routes from Houston-IAH, you’re limited to:
Air France Flight 639 – 4:00pm to 8:35am – [...]
