My friend, Sarah Page, recently took a trip to Brazil to escape the dismal winter weather in Buenos Aires that drove me to Brazil and then Europe myself. She and her friends used tips they learned from this blog to save money and earn extra travel rewards on the trip.

I will go through those tips below so you can learn from their experience. (Ignore the fact that she started in Buenos Aires.

China Eastern flies its 777-300ER with flat beds in Business Class and a flat double bed in First Class for two people to share between several American cities and Shanghai with connections throughout Asia.

You can book Business Class for 77,500 Korean miles or 80,000 Delta miles, and you can book First Class for 100,000 Korean miles. If you book two First Class award seats, you can combine your beds into one large double bed.

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® comes with 60,000 bonus American Airlines miles after spending $5,000 in the first three months. It is a premium American Airlines credit card with a $450 annual fee that grants the cardholder Admirals Club membership.

Until 2015, adding authorized users didn't get your friends and family access to American Airlines clubs, but that has changed.

You can now add up to 10 authorized users to your Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® account, and each one will get access to American Airlines lounges for himself and two guests.

I just emailed two winners. If either doesn't reply within 24 hours, I will pick a new winner.

Generous reader Eugene is donating four United Club passes that expire June 30, 2016–in three weeks--to two lucky winners (one pair to each winner.)

If you have a use for the passes between the 16th (to allow time for them to be mailed to you) and 30th of this month, comment on this post for a chance to win the passes. Include your real email address while commenting, so I can contact the winner.

Starting December 1, 2016 United's new Business Class product Polaris will begin service, eventually flying to 330 destinations in more than 50 countries, on the following aircraft:

Boeing 777-300ER
Boeing 787-10
Airbus A350-1000
Retrofitted Boeing 767-300's and 777-200's.

The first to be updated will be the 777-300ER's and the rest will follow. Polaris will be standard on all international Business Class routes.
The Old Business Class
It is a big pet peeve of mine when a Business Class product has a seat layout that doesn't provide aisle access to all passengers.

Travel from San Francisco, Washington DC, Cleveland, Houston, Denver, and New York to Zurich, Switzerland; or Frankfurt, Germany for $414+ in American Airlines economy. Most of the availability for these deals is between September 2016 and April 2017.

We have seen a lot of changes lately to American Airlines' frequent flyer program AAdvantage, like:

these alterations to how we get, maintain, and use the benefits of American Airlines' status
the massive devaluation to American Airlines' award redemption chart

About the same time we were informed of these things (late 2015), American Airlines also announced changes in the structure of how we earn miles that were planned to take affect in the second half of 2016.

For travel in July through Mid November 2016, Delta is discounting Economy awards between Atlanta and Brazil.

As far as I can tell, it only applies to travel specifically between Atlanta and Rio de Janeiro or Atlanta and São Paulo, no other North or South American cities.

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ MasterCard® 60,000 mile offer has expired.

I'm honestly a little confused by the motives of the participants in tonight's scam, so I turn to the commentariat for insight on who was doing what and how I could have acted differently.
Background
Budapest Honeypot Scam

A well-known scam in Budapest, Hungary is that a girl or girls, ideally pretty, comes up to a guy or guys, flirts with them, convinces them to go to a bar, orders drinks, and then the bill is outrageous.