About Ajay

Ajay Awtaney is the Founder and Editor of Live From A Lounge (LFAL), a pioneering digital platform renowned for publishing news and views about aviation, hotels, passenger experience, loyalty programs, travel trends and frequent travel tips for the Global Indian. He is considered the Indian authority on business travel, luxury travel, frequent flyer miles, loyalty credit cards and travel for Indians around the globe. Ajay is a frequent contributor and commentator on the media as well, including ET Now, BBC, CNBC TV18, NDTV, Conde Nast Traveller and many other outlets.

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Winner of RocketMiles 15K JPMiles Sweepstakes

We recently organised a giveaway where we offered 15K JPMiles to people who made their first booking via RocketMiles, a website which offers you airline miles for making your hotel bookings with them.

What we have on offer is a special 4K Miles link for our readers, who can get more miles for their first hotel booking using our special link.

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Air India Upgrade Awards become (very) expensive!

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Amongst the long list of changes Air India made recently in their December 2015 program refresh, Upgrade Awards were taken to very high number of miles required as compared to the earlier standardized upgrade levels.

Here is how we can find out how miserly the Air India program has become, in spite of their claim of being the World’s Most Rewarding Airline Loyalty Programme

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Less than a month before Jet Airways flies to Amsterdam

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Jet Airways will be moving operations from Brussels to Amsterdam at the end of March 2016, when the summer 2016 schedule gets underway. This move solves a lot of problems for Jet Airways and also opens a new city for Jet Airways.

Here are all the details of the new route and how it will work for Jet Airways’ European operations here on.

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