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How to Add Redemption Nominee to Singapore Airlines Account

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Good morning everyone, happy Friday!  By the time you read this post, I will be flying down to La Paz, Bolivia for the start of my Central / South America trip.  A few weeks ago, I booked a flight for my brother to Maui, Hawaii.  The flight is in mid April and the cost of the ticket was kind of pricey ($500+), but luckily I found United Airlines award space for the flights he wanted.  Unfortunately, United Airlines charges 45,000 miles + $11.20 in taxes/fees for a roundtrip flight in economy.  Luckily, Singapore Airlines only charges 35,000 miles for the same roundtrip flight in economy to Hawaii.  In this post, I will show you how I easily booked an award ticket for my brother using Singapore Airlines miles and how adding him as a redemption nominee made the process even easier.

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Adios Amigos! I’m Traveling Around Central / South America (LPB, UYU, GUA, SAL, MGA & LIR)

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Hola amigos!  My friend Jim and I am heading south of the border (and hemisphere) for a few days and visiting the following cities around Central / South America:

  • La Paz, Bolivia (LPB)
  • Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia (UYU)
  • Guatemala City, Guatemala (GUA)
  • San Salvador, El Salvador (SAL)
  • Managua, Nicaragua (MGA)
  • Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR)

If you want to see those cities plotted on a map, here is the Great Circle Mapper view. I left out the flights to/from San Francisco, the airline routing, and bus ride, otherwise the map would be too messy.

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Shelli’s Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2017

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This past week, the travel blogosphere was abuzz with all kinds of stats from 2017. Bloggers wrote about miles traveled, best/worst flights and elite statuses renewed. Grant kept it simple and took a look at his popular posts of the previous year. The jet lag I’m working through does present me with some quiet early morning hours, so why not pull up my most popular posts of the year, since I do have a year’s worth of posts to consider! There were some surprises. I’ve been enjoying Vancouver since their World’s Fair in 1986. That’s a long time to have a love affair! I see from my posts that a lot of other people want to enjoy Vancouver as well. It’s also good to see that readers are interested in a variety of airline and lounge information. You never know what will be popular, though from both my list and Grant’s list, I’d say TWG readers are a practical, strategic bunch who expect insights and information they can put to good use!

Date Title Pageviews
5/28/2017 See, Eat & Drink: The Perfect Long Weekend in Vancouver, Canada 5,106
2/1/2017 PSA: Renew your TSA PreCheck, Global Entry, NEXUS or SENTRI Membership Early 3,857
9/29/2017 Southwest Refundable Ticket Changes: Refundable No More 3,278
6/1/2017 A Pleasant Surprise at the Priority Pass Lounge in Rome (FCO) 3,154
6/28/2017 How are you Feeling about American Express Centurion Lounges these Days? 3,007
6/21/2017 PSA: Southwest Airlines Travel Funds can Only be Used by the Passenger Named on the Ticket 2,995
12/5/2017 Hawaiian Airlines Announced New Routes from the West Coast 2,047
2/16/2017 5 Ways to Keep American Airlines Frequent Flyer Miles from Expiring (Without Getting on a Plane) 1,820
12/5/2017 13 Hacks for your Southwest Airlines Flights 1,807
6/8/2017 My Simple Currency Exchange Rate Philosophy 1,801

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My Top 10 Most Popular Posts from 2017 & Top 10 Posts Ever Written

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Good afternoon from rainy San Francisco.  My girlfriend said I should write a blog post highlighting the top 10 most popular posts from 2017 and then look at the top 10 posts even written, so I decided to log into Google Analytics and see which posts were the most popular.  I looked at data from January 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 and here are the top 10 posts written in 2017.  I am always surprised by which posts are the most popular.  Some of the posts I thought would do very well weren’t very popular and some of the posts that I wrote quickly and didn’t think much of turned out to be very popular.  Funny how that worked out.

Date Title Pageviews
7/11/2017 Send Money to Friends (or Other Bank Accounts) Instantly with Zelle (Formerly Chase QuickPay / clearXchange) 13,864
3/27/2017 How to Redeem your World of Hyatt Free Anniversary Night Certificate 8,529
6/17/2017 PayPal Adding Faster Withdrawal Option (with a 25 Cent Fee) & Accepting Venmo Payments (Effective July 27, 2017) 6,646
1/30/2017 Fast Track to Southwest Airlines A-List Elite Status (Keep with 3 Round Trips before April 30) 6,520
4/23/2017 Join Robinhood & Receive a Free Random Share of Stock Worth up to $150 (+ Free Shares for Referrals) 6,244
6/4/2017 American Express Car Rental Loss & Damage Insurance Coverage Changes (Effective September 1, 2017) 5,595
5/19/2017 My 4 Favorite Airfare Deal Websites: The Flight Deal, Fare Deal Alert, Exit Fares & GTFO Flights 5,535
5/28/2017 See, Eat & Drink: The Perfect Long Weekend in Vancouver, Canada 5,106
7/26/2017 Walmart.com Orders Instantly Cancelled? Try Walmart’s Online Chat 4,825
5/28/2017 Great First Experience Calling American Express Platinum Concierge for Restaurant Reservations 3,864

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Keep, Cancel or Convert? Barclays JetBlue Plus Credit Card ($99 Annual Fee)

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Good morning everyone, happy Friday!  I hope you all have exciting weekend plans for the first weekend of 2018.  My girlfriend and I are flying to Las Vegas this weekend with a couple lounge visits in our future (SFO Centurion Lounge on departure, LAS Centurion Lounge on arrival, again to LAS Centurion Lounge on departure, and then the Escape Lounge (Priority Pass) in OAK on arrival).  Enough about my free lounge obsession, let’s talk about the Barclays JetBlue Plus Credit Card.

I got this credit card during my December 2016 App-O-Rama and wrote this post about the features of the credit card.  I quickly received the 30,000 JetBlue points from the sign up bonus but I didn’t fly JetBlue at all in 2016.  But thanks to the generous 3x JetBlue points on Amazon purchases, I continued to earn hundreds of JetBlue points each month.  I almost completely forgot about this credit card until this email came to me in early December regarding the annual fee and the 5,000 bonus JetBlue points for being a cardmember.

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