Tahsir forwarded to me the following offer for the Business Gold Rewards Card that was emailed to his friend:

75k bonus Membership Rewards
after spending $5k in the first three months
all the other features of the card's standard offers

Everyone should check their emails for a similar email from American Express with the subject: "Your pre-approved offer ends 10/6. Earn 75,000 Pts"

If you don't have one, it's possible that the offer will be public tomorrow.

How good is the offer? Who can get in on it?

This is an incredible offer.

Update October 5, 2013: United has cancelled this one-off route, but there are other opportunities to get on this flight domestically.

United's 787 Dreamliner will fly a single roundtrip from Seattle to Houston over with perfect flight times for this Thanksgiving.

How can you get on the Dreamliner on a domestic flight for far less than an international flight?

There's currently only Standard (double-price) award space on the flight in both directions.

That means a roundtrip on a flat bed would set you back 100k United miles.

American Airlines has announced a new route from Los Angeles to Sao Paulo starting December 16, 2013.

Citi ThankYou Points now transfer 1:1 to Singapore miles! Earn 40,000 bonus ThankYou Points with the Citi Prestige® Card after $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.

Application Link: Citi Prestige® Card

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I have wanted to fly Singapore Suites since seeing Tahsir's trip report of a flying double bed.

I recently had a chance to relax and refuel in the British Airways Galleries Lounge North at Heathrow Terminal 5 before my Dreamliner flight to Stockholm.

The lounge features incredible food, a wide selection of booze, some cool aircraft views, and a variety of seating areas. It is very crowded, but overall I'd give the lounge very high marks.

Just after passing security, the lounge was on my left.

Upon presenting a business class ticket, I was admitted by an agent who I later saw was surfing the BA FlyerTalk forum from her desk.

JetBlue has announced a 5x points promo on flights booked by Tuesday.

Ordinarily one earns 6 TrueBlue points per dollar on JetBlue bookings made online.

Last week, British Airways announced a new, and surprising, route to be served by its Dreamliner 787: Austin, Texas <-> London-Heathrow, starting March 3, 2014.

The Austin route is the third Dreamliner route announced. The plane is already flying to Toronto and starts service to Newark on October 1, 2013.

I had a chance to speak to Simon Brooks, BA's Head of Sales for North America about the new route, for which tickets are already on sale.

The Business Gold Rewards Card from American Express OPEN is one of the best credit cards on the market with 30,000 bonus Membership Rewards after spending $5k in three months, several lucrative category bonuses, and automatic 5-10% discounts from dozens of companies through American Express OPEN Savings.

A new category bonus has been added to the card.

I recently had a chance to fly both a British Airways A380 and a British Airways 787 on intra-European flights in fully-flat business class beds for peanuts. The circumstances of the flights and some photos of the A380 are here.

I booked myself a business class bed on the 787 from London-Heathrow to Stockholm for 7,500 Avios and $140.

I recently booked two flights for only $102 total on Asian low-cost carriers. Asian low-cost carriers are so cheap that there are effects on United and American awards you might be considering booking.

I booked Kuala Lumpur to Lankawi for $27 on Air Asia, and I spent another $75 on a Firefly flight from Penang to Phuket.