July 15th, 2008 by Zuriana
Chris Steinbruckner of Travel Dimensions has graciously offered to be a guest blogger and provide some great travel tips that you will find invaluable. I will post some of her tips this week.
“So many of us today have frequent flyer mile programs and have been promised free tickets, upgrades and special treatment as part of a group of loyal flyers of a particular airline. However, so much has changed today regarding frequent flyer miles that I thought I would offer some information.
When booking award tickets, many airlines are now charging fuel surcharges of $25 per ticket, or online fees to book an award ticket of $5 or more plus it is more and more difficult to use only 25,000 miles for a domestic ticket, several of my friends have had to use 50,000 miles for a preferred status ticket for a domestic ticket. In the past you could reserve a first class ticket with 50,000 miles. I am going to include an article link about this information, I found it very helpful. It’s titled, “The Miles Pile Up; the Value Declines” It was a travel article in the New York Times. It states by the time you pay for an award credit card, the fees etc, for a few dollars more you basically could have bought a ticket. The articles also offers some tips on a better credit card that also earns you hotel awards. Its interesting reading. If you cannot link to the article, copy and paste into your browser.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/travel/13pracfflierfees.html?_r=1&ref=travel&oref=slogin
Regards,
Chris @ Travel Dimensions
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