Do you have a flight on Volaris soon? I received an email yesterday from Volaris (a Mexican low-cost carrier) that they are offering vouchers for $250 Mexican pesos (roughly $11 USD) for using their Mobile Check-In feature.
Buenas tardes from Cancun! I wanted to tell you all a little bit about how my last year went. In 2016, I blew past my previous record for miles traveled, went all in on gift card reselling, moved to Mexico, and picked up a handful of credit cards and bank signup bonuses along the way.
Travel
I flew just over 197,000 miles last year, a significant increase from my previous record of 125,000 miles in 2015. The change was mostly because I did a lot more flying across oceans – my 2015 trips were entirely in the Americas, but I spent a lot more time in Europe and Asia in 2016.
Tonei’s 2016 flight map, courtesy of openflights.org
Bonjour everyone,
We spent our first three days in Paris at the Holiday Inn Gare de l’Est, an 8-story, 207-room hotel that was renovated in 2015.
Location: The hotel is in Paris’ 10th Arrondissement, directly across the street from the Gare de l’Est SNCF station and right on top of the Metro station of the same name, and a few minutes’ walk from the main Gare du Nord station (offering easy access to intercity and international trains, and Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Orly (ORY) airports. It’s about a 10-15 minute train ride to the main tourist attractions downtown.
View of Gare de l’Est from our hotel room. Photo by Yagrel Ruber.
Buenos dias everyone!
Even before I moved to Mexico City, I was moving and traveling a lot – between 2012 and 2016 I lived in five different apartments in three cities, and that’s not counting the 4-8 weeks I spent each summer working on various university campuses. As you might imagine, this made it a bit difficult to make sure I kept receiving important mail like credit cards and cash back portal checks.
Fortunately, there are companies that make this a bit easier for you through a virtual mailbox. This is basically like a PO box that you can access from anywhere – they all work a bit differently, but the basic idea is that they receive your mail, upload a scan of the envelope that was or package for you to review, and then let you decide what to do with it – scan the contents, forward it somewhere else, or securely destroy it. Generally you pay a monthly subscription fee that covers a certain number of pieces of mail and a certain number of scans, and if you need more services you pay per piece.
Buenas tardes everyone,
I’m on a Delta flight from Monterrey to Atlanta right now, and right before takeoff I received an email from Alaska Airlines announcing changes to their mileage program. “Enhancements” is often a code word for devaluation, but for the most part these seem like good things – with one glaring exception.
Alaska and Delta Ending their Partnership Effective April 30, 2017
Buried at the end of their updates and press releases is the big news that Alaska and Delta are severing their partnership next year. People have been predicting this since Delta expanded their Seattle operations several years ago and launched head-to-head competition on some of Alaska’s core west coast routes, and it’s finally happened: the last day of the partnership will be April 30, 2017. After that, Alaska and Delta will stop codesharing each other’s flights, and members of their respective mileage programs will no longer be able to earn or redeem miles on the other airline. However, both airlines will still award miles for flights booked prior to today’s announcement, even if the flights are after April 30 – a very nice move. (No elite benefits will be honored after that date, though). Continue reading