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A new Marriott Moment which allows Bonvoy Members to bid for seats in the hospitality suite of Mercedes-AMG, take a lap on the Singapore Street Circuit and includes a stay at the JW Marriott Singapore is now open. Bid for it before it goes away.
A new tweak has been made to the Hilton Status Match 2021 criteria, which will limit the direct qualification to Diamond, and will also move from stays count to nights count to grant status here on.
Marriott is implementing, what I hope, is the final round of changes towards the Marriott Bonvoy programme. As a part of the changes, there will be changes to award pricing, cash & points and Points Advance. Check it out.
There are many ways we capture travel memories. Some record them in words while others capture them in a lens. I fall in the latter and use vacation photographer. Here’s why I love hiring Flytographer and have hired them many times over the last five years.
In a free-wheeling chat with Vistara’s CEO Leslie Thng, LiveFromALounge gets the sense of how big is Vistara’s international ambition, and what are they doing to get there as soon as they can.
Vistara Dubai flights will be launched from Mumbai on August 21, 2019 as a daily three-class service using the Airbus A320 aircraft of the airline.
Air Tanzania launched 3x weekly 787-8 flights to Mumbai but operated an A220-300 on July 24, 2019. They may deploy the A220-300 regularly to Mumbai as they launch flights to London in December 2019.
The story of a weather disruption, misconnect, and how a Visa On Arrival saved the day. Here is the developing story of my flight from Mumbai to Paris on Etihad.
SpiceJet has applied for slots to operate flights to London Heathrow and Manchester with an A330-300. It plans to operate daily flights on both the routes.
In case you still haven’t received your Jet Airways refund, you should file a claim with the Jet Airways Insolvency team so that your name gets reflected as a creditor to the airline when payouts are made of any remaining money with the airline.
United suspended fligths to India due to closure of Pakistan and Iranian airpsace. With the Pakistan airspace now open, United will resume flights to Mumbai and Delhi from Newark from September 6, 2019. Air Canada will also resume their suspended flights in September 2019.
