According to the Wall Street Journal, airlines are opening up more award space this year compared to last year because of pressure from banks, accounting rules, and consultant studies.

In the short term, that's good for us. More award space: woohoo!

But in the long run, these pressures could cause more airlines to move to revenue-based frequent flyer programs. Revenue-based redemptions: boohoo!

Every year IdeaWorks comes out with one of the worst-conceived studies imaginable in an attempt to quantify which frequent flyer programs make redemptions the easiest.

Qantas will operate its daily flight from Dallas to Sydney with an A380 starting October 1, 2014. This is a large increase in capacity from the current 747 on the route.

The Dallas to Sydney flight will be the longest A380 flight in the world at 16hr55min, so it's not one I'd be eager to fly in coach.

The route is in addition to the A380 flights Qantas operates from Los Angeles to Sydney and Melbourne.

Frontier Airlines just announced 14 nonstop routes from Washington Dulles airport with introductory prices of $14.99 one way for tickets purchased today and flown by November 19, 2014.

Of course, this will not be the "all in price" because as I reported a few weeks ago, Frontier now charges for carry on bags and checked bags.

This post was inspired by the plight of my friends in Los Angeles who haven't bought their plane tickets yet for next month's Del Close Marathon Improv Festival in New York City.

Hopefully everyone has heard that you can stay in China for 72 hours without a visa if:

you fly into Beijing (PEK), Shanghai (PVG or SHA), Guangzhou (CAN), or Chengdu (CTU)
fly out of the same airport
stay in the city/province the entire time
arrive with an onward ticket to a third country departing less than 72 hours after arrival
hold a passport from one of 51 countries including the United States

Here's what the U.S.

Daily Getaways is a yearly monthlong sale of travel packages put on by American Express and the U.S. Travel Association.

This year's Daily Getaways will run from May 19 to June 20, 2014, and the first two weeks of sale items have been announced.

Typical sale items include hotel points, hotel stays, and discounted gift cards.

Every weekday, a new item or items are put on sale at 1 PM ET.

JB books awards for the MileValue Award Booking Service. He was an expert on the now-defunct American Airlines Explorer Awards and had been planning to book one for himself.

You have six days left to use your US Airways miles to book EVA Airlines flights through April 14, 2015.

As I wrote in "US Airways Losing Four Partners in the Next Few Months," four of the Star Alliance partnerships that US Airways carried over when it joined oneworld are ending soon. The first one to end is US Airways' partnership with EVA Airlines, next Wednesday May 14.

EVA Airlines is a Taiwanese airline that flies to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Seattle with incredible award space on a top-notch flat bed business class product.

I've been using Uber more often because it is the most convenient way to get a taxi or town car around the world.

I like being able to hail a taxi with a few taps on my phone and then to be able to see where my taxi is and how long it will be until it picks me up.

I really like that at the end of the trip, you rate the driver and poorly rated drivers are removed from the program, which incentivizes a clean, odor-free car and reliable, safe driving.

So far every trip I've had, I've

Update July 1, 2014:

The current offer on the Premier Miles & More® World MasterCard® is 20,000 miles after first purchase and payment of $79 annual fee.

Earn 20,000 award miles after your first purchase or balance transfer
Earn up to 15,000 award miles with balance transfers (1 mile per $1 transferred) within 30 days of account opening
Earn 2 award miles per $1 on ticket purchases directly from Miles &