I hope that you’ve enjoyed the past week of travel information – here’s a recap of what you may have missed from Points With a Crew over the past 7 days
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Featured stories
American Airlines has a program called Reduced Mileage Awards, which can be one of the cheapest ways for flying domestically
If you have one of the Citi AAdvantage cards, a roundtrip domestic flight is only 17,500 miles, or 15,875 after your 10% rebate
There are 62 airports where you can fly anywhere in the US for under 8,000 miles
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post titled: Sorry, I’m TAKING my bag in an airplane emergency
My original philosophy was “if you can wear it, you can take it”
As you might imagine, that generated some pretty angry comments, but also a few rational explanations that I hadn’t thought of before
So for the first time in the history of the Internet, someone’s opinion has been changed from Internet discussion
In an airplane evacuation, I promise I will LEAVE my bags!
One of the perks of the American Express Platinum card is free American Express Roadside Assistance
This perk is available to the primary cardholder as well as authorized users, and saved me the cost of a jumpstart and a tow when my car wouldn’t start
Here are the rest of this week’s stories:
Family Travel
- I’m not sure I’d tackle this one with a family, but Qantas has announced that they intend to offer service from Perth to London in 2017, which would be the world’s longest flight
- One of the things I learned in Rome is that there’s an easy way to beat the lines at the Colosseum
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Miles, Points and Credit cards
- 12,500 Southwest or 15,000 Amtrak points for switching energy providers
- I love these little promotions where you can get a small amount of points in a small amount of time.  It’s great for gradually building up the point balances, or keeping points from expiring – Here’s 150 free SPG points (in about 60 seconds) and https://www.pointswithacrew.com/300-la-quinta-points-in-10-seconds/
News and Notes
- 150,000 bonus mile analysis, the worst decisions on a cruise, and annoying airplane habits
- Well at least I’ve never lost a kid in a foreign country…
- Single women taxi trouble, hilarious hotel requests, inaugural flights, selfie sticks, and a new beta program
If you’re still up for more travel reading, here’s last week’s recap: Submitting an EU261 claim, round the world trip, and why I’m not bothering with Small Business Saturday
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