Although this isn’t as great a deal as last time (which will probably never come back!), BMO is currently offering their World Elite Mastercard with a $300 travel credit and first year free (this is not a referral). You must apply by April 10, 2015 to be eligible for this promotion.
Turkish Airlines, a Star Alliance carrier, has been offering an extremely generous status match program for a number of years. It’s a relatively easy process, and this Sunday Reader Question addresses: How do I get a Turkish Airlines status match?
Many thanks to flyinghigh77 for posting this on Flyertalk
AMEX Travel Germany is offering a promo code, jetztamex, that discounts €20 off a hotel or car reservation, with no minimum price or stay requirements. Although we’ve seen plenty of better discounts on hotels, this sort of discount can be extremely lucrative for car rentals. If you booked a car for single-day reservations consecutively (say, for a week), using this code, you could save a bundle.
The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), Ontario’s near monopolistic retailer of alcoholic beverages and one of the world’s largest single purchasers of alcohol, awards customers with AIR MILES for purchases. AIR MILES, like Aeroplan and other award schemes, are largely meant to incentivize consumption. A while ago I asked the LCBO why, as a monopoly, would they offer AIR MILES to consumers? If consumer basically don’t have any other option than to purchase from the LCBO, it’s unlikely that offering AIR MILES incentivizes consumption. That is, in a monopolistic situation, it doesn’t make much sense to offer bonuses when the consumer doesn’t have any other option.
TAM airlines, once a Star Alliance carrier and now part of the OneWorld alliance, has starting flying a fifth freedom routing of Toronto YYZ to New York City JFK to Sao Paulo GRU. The Toronto YYZ to New York City JFK route is starting March 29, and can now be booked.
I’m delighted to have both regular readers from when I started this blog, and the many new readers I’ve gained since joining BoaringArea/Prior2Boarding. I’ve written 140+ posts since last June with very little guidance. Although I get regular feedback from some readers, I don’t always know whether I’m doing something well or poorly.
