Monthly Archive: October 2013

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    LAND-SIDE: On Nov.15th, Make-A-Wish Foundation will transform San Francisco into Gotham City

    Yesterday, I read this article from SFist about how on November 15th, the Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation will be transforming San Francisco into Gotham City for young five years old Miles who has leukemia. Miles “is a sunny, positive little boy and finds his inspiration in super heroes.” His wish is to be Batman. And that’s exactly what will happen on November 15th, when San Francisco will be transformed into Gotham City–including the bat signal, batmobile, and bat suit. Here’s the tentative plot: The day starts with a breaking news…… (click read more!)

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    UP-IN-THE-AIR: Singapore Airlines discontinues the longest commercial flight in the world

    For years Singapore Airlines has been running direct flights from Los Angeles to Singapore (approx. 8,772 miles) and New Jersey to Singapore (approx. 9,540 miles). Quartz blog has it that due to “rising fuel costs and declining demand for its premium services,” Singapore Airlines is discontinuing these flights. Now Qantas Airlines’ Dallas-to-Sydney service will become the longest regularly scheduled commercial flight in the world. Read more at the Quartz blog here.

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    UP-IN-THE-AIR: Virgin America’s new safety video is a modern musical

    If you frequent airplanes, you will come to memorize (sometimes word for word) the on-board safety instructions that each airline crew is obligated to tell you. Normally this is a time when most passengers and frequent flyers will tune out the cabin crew by reading Skymall or playing around with their smartphones. Yesterday, Virgin America released their new safety video, and it is definitely one that is hard to ignore. Check it out! Personally, I like it when airlines put a little bit of a twist on the safety instructions–like…… (click read more!)

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    MILES&POINTS: Chance to win 100k JetBlue TrueBlue Points by submitting your family Halloween photo

    For those of you who think you have an adorable family, a budding star photographer, and/or lots of Facebook friends to leverage to “like” a photo… then here is your chance to win 100,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points! JetBlue customers can share a photo of their family’s Halloween costumes on the JetBlue Facebook wall by 11:59 pm EDT on 11/2/13, and the owner of the picture with the most Facebook “likes” will win 100,000 TrueBlue points! That’s enough points for potentially three or four roundtrip tickets from San Francisco to New…… (click read more!)

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    MONEY: Earning 5.5% cashback on all Marriott.com purchases + many other stores

    Earning reward points or airline miles by using your favorite rewards credit card is always a fun way to gain karma to treat yourself to a vacation later on, but what about leveraging cashback portals to earn even more? Ebates.com currently has 5.5% cashback on all Marriott.com purchases. If you are planning on booking a stay at Marriott in the near future, consider creating your free account at Ebates and using their link to the Marriott.com website first. Here’s how it works: You create your free Ebates account here. You…… (click read more!)

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    MILES&POINTS: Earn double award miles on all continental flights on United Airlines

    If you have any plans on traveling anywhere within the continental United States (so not including Hawaii or Alaska) between now and November 21, 2013, consider traveling on United Airlines in order to reap the benefits of this limited time double award miles promotion. Here’s how: First, you need to make sure to register your MileagePlus account number at the promotion page here.  Once you have done that, you must purchase your ticket through United.com AND complete travel by November 21, 2013. Keep in mind that this promotion is only…… (click read more!)

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    AIR: United has SFO to Manila, Philippines roundtrip for $740!

    The gents over at TheFlightDeal have spotted an amazing deal from United for San Francisco (SFO) to Manila, Philippines (MNL) roundtrip for only $740! Fares seem to be valid sporadically for travel now through November 30th, or else travel from January 1st, 2014 through March 30, 2014. This is an incredible fare if you don’t mind the weather. Keep in mind that since this is an international flight, you’ll also get back a good amount of award miles and premier qualifying miles (assuming you care about elite status). For more…… (click read more!)

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    MONEY: First 100k Twitter users get a free $5 Starbucks eCard when they tweet $5 to a friend

    Starbucks is currently running a promotion on their new “Tweet-a-Coffee” / send a friend a Starbucks eGift Card via Twitter feature. The first 100,000 customers, now through November 6th, who participate and tweet a eGift Card via their promotional page will get a free $5 gift card. Limit one per person. Sounds like it’s worth trying. Besides, who doesn’t like giving gifts and getting them back in return? 🙂 Click here and click on the ‘Get Started’ button to login and connect your Starbucks and Twitter accounts. (Both are free to…… (click read more!)

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