Category: Frequent Flyer

Apr 07 2008

Milemaven: Before you book that flight, see if there are bonuses available

Milemaven is a Web site that lets you search for bonus mile promotions that are available based on the route you’re taking. I just checked it for a rather obscure flight to remote Idaho that I’m contemplating, and sure enough, no fewer than 8 bonuses on 2 different airlines were displayed.

These included (from Alaska Airlines…) [...]

Apr 07 2008

MacBook Air Scanned for TSA Blog

Remember when the TSA had their big snafu about not letting a MacBook Air through security?
The official guess from the TSA blog was that the MacBook probably didn’t make it through because it looked significantly different under an X-ray than any “normal” laptop. Screeners are trained to look for irregularities in objects, since that’s usually [...]

Apr 07 2008

Forbes recognizes the importance free wireless in airports

According to a recent article on Forbes.com, the Denver and Las Vegas airports owe their high placement in the “Wired Airports” rankings to their free wi-fi:
In an increasingly data-dense world, travelers will soon be able to surf the Web from the skies. Until then, however, the next best thing may be to fly out of [...]

Apr 06 2008

China bans multiple-entry visas in Hong Kong until after the Olympics

Hong Kong, April 6 (DPA) China has stopped issuing multiple-entry visas to foreigners traveling from Hong Kong until after the Olympics, a news report said Sunday. The issuing of visas is also being delayed, taking four days to process in Hong Kong instead of one or two days, the South China Morning Post reported.
Business people [...]

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