The Mayor of London has a mini-site giving information about the arrangements of the the New Year’s Eve Fireworks. For those who missed the 2012 event, the event is on YouTube 2012 London Fireworks The Salmon Pink areas (Victoria Embankment) are the primary viewing areas and the Yellow Area is overflow. The Blue Lines are…
New Shuttle service on Kauai, including to the Grand Hyatt
I used to travel to Kauai a great deal, about 10 years ago. Before the advent of direct flights from the US West Coast, I connected in Honolulu to to Aloha airlines for the short hop to Kauai. I stopped going for two reason – as a non-driver the taxi fares to/from the Grand Hyatt…
London’s buses – now accepting Contactless credit/debit card – but no daily cap
Most London Buses are now accepting contactless payments using credit/debit cards with the contacless symbol (below). TFL note that not every card has this symbol. The advantage is that you get Oyster fares without an Oyster card, but TFL does not apply the daily maximum fare that you would enjoy with an Oyster card. They…
New AA Reservations layout…and a note for BA Tier Point runners
Hard on the heals of changes to the way BA operates it’s redemption site, AA has redesigned its booking engine for revenue tickets. There has always been an odd quirk with AA’s UP fares – where you essentially get a free upgrade. These fares have always been popular with people looking for a few more…
BA enhances online award booking tool
BA has quietly changed their online booking tool for awards to make it easier to find partner and connection awards. (This excludes reservations when using a Gold Upgrade Certficate). The new page shows BA only options first, then BA and partner connections and then wholly partner connections all on the same page. In the previous…
Virgin UK domestic flights for sale – Manchester
It appears that Virgin have put tickets for sale on their web site for their first domestic flights – LHR to Manchester from 31 March 2013. The cheapest fare appears to be about £110 roundtrip. 2 flights per day in each direction. The BBC are reporting that the flights to Scotland (Edinburgh and Aberdeen) are…
Still some bonus Hyatt promotions about
Despite the loss of the old G2 (etc.) property specific bonuses, every so often bonus miles or points offers turn up on the Hyatt web site. I checked today and there are several which might be of interest (as of 9 Dec 12): 5,000 GP points Park Hyatt Chennai – GPCHE5 code – 1 Dec…
Transport For London publishes Christmas and New Year plans
Transport for London who operate the buses, tubes and some overground trains for large parts of London have published their arrangements for Christmas and New Year. On Christmas Day there are no tubes, overground trains and most buses will not operate. For those arriving at Heathrow there will be coaches to Central London as follows:…
Holiday Inn Priority Club changes how you earn elite status
For several years Priority Club has been the easiest elite status to earn. Points earned from promotions counted towards the 60,000 needed to earn their top tier, as well as points earned by staying and on their credit cards. Last week, the Chinese web site was updated to indicate that from 1 January 2013 it…
Avios redemption on Qantas now available via Dubai
Qantas is partnering with Emirates and dropping their longstanding arrangements with BA. It seems that you can now book their flights to Australia from London, via Dubai, on Avios. 70,000 Avios and about £200 in taxes for the routing above – one way.
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