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9 more days: Singapore Airlines offering 2 Years of Star Alliance Gold Status for transferring points to Krisflyer programme

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Singapore Airlines has been offering a very lucrative promotion for those who are members of the KrisFlyer programme, their loyalty programme. Here is how you can receive Star Alliance status just by transferring miles to SQ KrisFlyer. Less than two more weeks to go to make this work for you though.

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World of Hyatt Changing Categories at 140+ Hotels in March 2022

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In a move announced recently, World of Hyatt is making changes to its award chart for 146 properties, and making some of its most aspirational properties excessively expensive in terms of points required. The good news however is, you still have a few days to lock the stays in at the old rates!

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Effective February 14, 2022, India largely removes pre & post arrival testing and quarantine requirement on International Arrivals into India (UAE / China vaccinated Excluded)

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India has opened up again, by discontinuing the requirement to test before and on arrival in India. Pre-arrival testing has been discontinued for over 80 countries and post-arrival testing has been abolished for everyone, along with home-quarantine requirements. Details inside.

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Live Now: Earn upto 85K Marriott Bonvoy Points and 85 Bonus Elite Nights with Marriott’s new promotion for 2022

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Marriott’s new global promotion for 2022 is now live, and they are offering double elite nights all the way through May 4, 2022. Here are the details of the new Marriott Global Promotion.

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5 Things Vistara’s IT Team needs to fix, PRONTO!

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Vistara, India’s Best Airline, Does not have the Best IT Experience. They have huge room for improvement here, and they have just refused to fix things that have been unfixed for years at a go. We deep dive into how Vistara can make their website and app better for the customers.

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IHCL (Taj Hotels) ekes out a profit during the pandemic

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Wow! When people start travelling again, the hospitality industry could make a profit too. IHCL did some solid results in Q3FY22, but there is a lot more insight into their business. Take a look at how the hotel behemoth has survived and thrived during the pandemic.

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