Citibank had offered a 50% bonus miles promotion for spends in August and September 2013. Under the terms & conditions, you would have received 50% bonus miles on all miles earned, i.e., if you earned 10 miles for booking flight tickets, you’d get another 5 miles for booking flight tickets under the promotion making it 15 miles. As a result, I ended up putting a lot of spend on this card, including sometimes booking Jet Airways tickets on this card as well. On Friday, Citibank credited the bonus miles to everyone who was eligible, and yesterday they sent out emails to this effect with the details to everyone who got miles. I personally loved this promotion, since I did not…
Go Air offering Rs. 888 off on flight tickets
GoAir is celebrating its 8th anniversary, and on this occasion, they are offering a discount of Rs. 888/- for tickets booked across their network on their website www.goair.in. The booking period for these tickets is by 11th November 2013, and travel has to be completed by 20th December 2013. The discount is included within your ticket pricing automatically, only if you search via the anniversary promo page, and you don’t need to add any promotional codes to book these tickets. Take an example below, which I tried to book. You see a Rs. 888 discount factored in already. This discount is not available via any travel agents online or offline. Related Posts Go Air joins in on the Jet Airways…
Unlimited lounge access on ICICI-Jet-Amex credit cards, and extra JP Miles
ICICI Bank’s Jet Airways co-branded credit cards have now completed about a full year in the business. When they started, they had a lot of issues with putting out credit cards, most of which are now resolved. Very recently, they offered a special promotion where there were extra JPMiles going out for signing up for the Visa version, or spending on the Visa version of the ICICI Bank 9W credit card. Now, a few important changes made to the product offering. Earlier, there were only 4 complimentary visits allowed per annum to the Altitude Lounge in Mumbai and Delhi. Now, this changes from 1st November 2013 onwards to make it unlimited trips to the lounges. Here are the reviews of…
Citi PremierMiles launches 2x miles promo
Citibank launched another cracker of a promotion this morning, and tied it in with the festival of Diwali. Citibank has done a 50% miles extra promotion a few months back, and this 2x miles promo last year where the top 2000 spenders got rewarded with 2x miles. Now, starting 1st November 2013 to January 31, 2014, you could be one of the top 5000 spenders with your Citibank PremierMiles Credit Card, and you get upto 50,000 bonus PremierMiles for this feat. This being an opt-in promotion, one needs to pre-register by 31 December 2013 and only whose who register will have their spends considered for the promotion. Use this link to register, it takes you to the Citibank India website.…
IHG Rewards Club 24-hour flash sale coming Monday 21 October 2013
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) club, is planning to run a flash sale on Monday 21 October 2013, 10 AM EST, for reward nights at some of their hotels. The promotion will have hotel stays booked for stays between 23 October to 22 November 2013 at 50% to 75% discount from their usual points price. Properties are spread out across China, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Canada, Germany, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Mexico, UAE, Dominican Republic and the United States. Mostly Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza properties, but a couple of Intercontinental Hotels here and there as well, including Madrid, which I remember as the place I’ve had the best Eggs Benedict ever. It is nice to look up the properties and…
Jet Airways begins to offer seat selection for a price
Unbundling has been around for a while, and all the Indian domestic aviation players jumped on the opportunity to monetize their seats. Jet Airways stayed away from this game for a while, only offering their Platinum Members the opportunity to select seats for free. However, earlier this week, they have started to offer a Seat Select feature to all their passengers on the domestic network. Initially, the pre-reservation of seats has been offered on the Boeing 737 network between the 6 key cities: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad. Pricing is at INR 500 for the bulkhead Window & Aisle seats, and INR 200 for the bulkhead Window & Aisle of the 5 rows behind the bulkhead. The good…
The SBI Air India Signature Card adds an upgrade voucher!
When I first started out to review the SBI Air India Signature Card, I was basing my review on the information that was provided by SBI Cards in this respect. Now, just like all other new products, I’ve had my fair share of sparring with SBI Cards as well, but yesterday, I got third time lucky and finally managed to submit my application to SBI Cards after two time-wasting attempts by them before. As I was trying to find more information on this credit card, I came across this on the Air India website: Premium privileges include 1 complementary domestic upgrade voucher Complementary lounge access (emphasis, mine) This is not information that was put out by the credit card company.…
We are back online, and thank god for plastic money
I know I’ve been missing in action the past ten days or so. A few things have been happening and I am fully geared up to make it up to you! First and foremost, I had a little burglary in my home a few days back. Yes, right in my home, not on the road, not in a different city. The only things gone were my wallet, my BlackBerry (a fairly new one!) and a portable hard drive. I spent almost a full day with the cops, who did not do much but give me a missing items report to help me get a new SIM card. So, it took a few days of calling the banks to get myself…
Getting a free stay out of an IHG stay!
With my personal travel patterns, I don’t have much in way of loyalty to a particular hotel chain these days. Yet, I try and concentrate my stays between the IHG hotels, Starwood and Hilton HHonors due to applicable status benefits there, and also because I have reasonably large balances in these programs. Just this past weekend, I was in Vienna for about 36 hours, and I found a reasonably priced Holiday Inn property which was walking distance from the city centre. I decided to throw in the towel to participate in the IHG Big Win promotion, and this sounded like a good deal to participate and get some inroad into cracking my personal promotion. However, there was also more possible.…
2,500 JPMiles for enrolment with JetPrivilege
Jet Airways is offering all new members who sign up using their recent link, a sign-up bonus of 2,500 JetPrivilege miles. JetPrivilege does bring up this promotion from time to time. Points usually post instantaneously or within a few hours. While the duration of the promotion is unspecified, only new members should enrol using this link, because existing accounts won’t get any bonus miles to enrol again, and opening a new account is useless for you since you’re allowed only one JP account under the terms of the program. Mileage credits are usually instantaneous, or within a few hours. So, if you intend to be crediting miles to JetPrivilege for flights on Jet Airways or other partner carriers, this may…
Uber launches in Bangalore, try it out with Uber Credits
Uber, the SF-based super-premium car aggregator, recently launched in India, with their first Indian outpost being Bangalore. They’ve been testing their service since the past month or so, and now rolled out in the city. At the heart of the Uber experience is your smartphone, which you can flick out, and order for a car in the neighborhood using the Uber app (available for iPhones and Android), and the car will turn up at your door within a few minutes. In Bangalore, they’ve started with the Original Uber, which means a Mercedes E220 or an Audi A6 or another similar car. The pricing during the test phase was a base fare of Rs. 150 and Rs. 20 per kilometer, which…
