I’m not trying to set off speculation here, but seems last week has been troublesome for SpiceJet. The airline, one of India’s low-cost carriers, has been plagued by low on-time performance for a long time now (85% on time, lowest amongst domestic scheduled carriers + 78% at Delhi, which is its home airport). Apparently their financial situation has not been too great as well, and they have been talking to Kuwait Airways amongst others for equity partnership. An indication of how things are for them lies in what happened with them last month, when Airports Authority of India, a government-owned airport operator which operates most of the airports in India, put them on cash & carry, which means they do…
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How long does it take for a flight to post to JetPrivilege, realistically?
At the outset, this is a rant. So those of you who don’t like ‘em, should quit now. Otherwise, read on. My last trip out of town was to Goa, when I popped on to a Jet Airways plane both ways to go to Goa and come back to Mumbai. Now, I am usually very particular about monitoring my 9W flight credits, because they don’t credit to JetPrivilege on time about 20-25% of the times. There is functionality on the website as well, to claim missing miles, which asks you to load up a lot of details and you’re through. It clearly also states, Incase the member has availed of an upgrade to Première or First Class against vouchers, JPMiles…
Are you travelling today? Here is a Jet Airways base fare off code for you
I’m truly delighted people are dusting up their inboxes to send in all the coupon codes they have which could benefit someone else. There is a Spicejet code, and a HDFC code posted here, and now Rohit Binrajka sent in another one which takes the base fare off your 9W ticket, incase you decide to travel today. HFqj9Kch You have to book and travel on or before August 31, 2013 and this one is an HDFC Bank Credit Card (Jet airways) issuance. All the best! Related Posts: Airline codes going away for Jet Airways & Spicejet Some GoIbibo.com discount codes going away Giving away a Rs. 750 Jet Airways discount code Live From A Lounge is present on Facebook, Twitter…
An extra 1000 PremierMiles to activate EMV by tomorrow
Seems Citibank never wanted me to earn these 1000 PremierMiles so I never got this email. Anyhow, I requested a reader to forward me an email that Citibank has sent out to select group of their PremierMiles customers, who have recently been issued the new chip & pin credit cards. To avail this offer, you first need to look up your mailbox to see if you have received an email from india.marketing@citi.com regarding this promotion. Only if you heard from Citi would you be eligible for the promotion. You need to use your new Chip+Pin Citibank Premiermiles CC with a physical swipe machine (i.e., not over the internet or a phone system) before August 31, 2013 and authenticate using a…
Airline codes going away for Jet Airways & Spicejet
A couple of days ago, I posted some discount codes which were valid till the end of this month. Here are some more coming from readers: HDFC Bank Jet Airways Credit Card discount promo code: HDcrFZat. (Save INR 750 on the base fare when booking return travel, book and travel on or before August 31, 2013) SBI Care Spicejet INR 500 discount code: Voucher code is SGWV, Voucher no. is 10079414, validity August 31, 2013. (You need to call and book, and works only if paid with a SBI Spicejet credit card) Thank you Rohit Binrajka and Vishal Mehra for these. If there are other readers who have codes they want to publish, you could either email me or put…
Indigo’s cheeky party video “6E boys 6E girls”
Indigo, India’s largest carrier by market share, recently completed 7 years of operations. And the frugal low cost airline threw a party to celebrate the occasion. Not just that, they shot a music video for the party, which even has the usually serious Aditya Ghosh, their CEO, singing and dancing, along with a few cheeky remarks for the competition as well. I couldn’t stop laughing. Have a look here, what do you think? Live From A Lounge is present on Facebook, Twitter & available via email, RSS.
Reminder: Register for the PremierMiles accelerated miles promo
At the beginning of the month, I had written about the current promotion from Citibank for the PremierMiles credit card, where you earn 2x PremierMiles for all spends between August 01, 2013 to September 30, 2013. The importance of earning PremierMiles is that it transfers 1:1 to some pretty useful programs around the globe. Registration is required to take part in the promotion, and open only till August 31, 2013. If you opt-in even now, your spends from August 01, 2013 will be taken into account. All the necessary details are in my earlier post. However, feel free to ask me any questions either here or in the other post. Related Posts: Citibank PremierMiles launches 50% more miles promotion Citibank…
Reminder: Hyatt 50000 GP Points Giveaway
I know everyone around here has been busy pondering about the flip flop that American Airlines made about fuel surcharges on the AAdvantage program for the past few hours. Turns out it was a false alarm, so maybe its time to get back to regular scheduled business. Just as a reminder, I had put in a giveaway for a total of 50,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points being given away by Hyatt a couple of days back. The Giveaway is to celebrate the upcoming New Possibilities promotion. You can head up to the original post to enter, and find out ways to get bonus entries as well. The giveaway is open for participation till Friday August 30, 2013. All the best!…
Some GoIbibo.com discount codes going away
A reader of the blog, Girija Prasad, has sent out to me two INR 500 discount codes from GoIbibo.com, which are valid for use till August 31, 2013, and date of travel is completely open. The two codes are published below, and they are valid for one-way flight bookings only. skaKyXxgftS 7pAb4qHrAw6 In case you use these codes, please let me know via the comments section, and if you have any more codes, do let me know as well. Safe travels, and thank you Girish for paying it forward. Edit: Looks like multiple people can use the same codes, so do try it out and report back if it works like that. Related Post: PremierMiles adds GoIbibo.com as earn/burn partner Live…
SPG offering sweepstakes for 250K Starpoints
SPG has just unveiled their “Take a spin with SPG” sweepstakes which seems to bring quite some serious points on the table for participating. Out here, participating would lead to an entry in the sweepstakes, apart from instant prizes for 46 of the participants daily as well. All you got to do is to spin a virtual globe and land on a Starwood destination. If you are the first to play the game at a randomly selected winning time or if no one plays at such time and you are the first to play thereafter, the screen will immediately open and a winning message will be displayed indicating that you are a potential Instant Win Prize winner. Here are the…
Earning miles on a credit card and being paid for it
The recent festival season in India presented an interesting opportunity to earn miles & points, and also be paid for it. One of the banks in India was offering gift cards at a discount on the face value of the gift card, which essentially meant you would be getting more money to spend on the card than how much you paid for it. There was a 5% discount, so if you bought the gift cards worth INR 3,000, you only paid INR 2,850 for it. I was able to purchase this gift card with a points earning credit card issued in India, who gave me their normal points structure on this spend. In essence, I was earning miles, and roughly…
