Daily Getaways is a series of daily discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express that runs for five weeks. Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale, and the best deals sell out in just a few minutes.

The 2015 incarnation starts March 23, and the offers will begin to be posted March 16. This is two months earlier than Daily Getaways debuted in 2013 and 2014.

In 2013, I blogged every deal.

We've been getting bad news in the miles world lately, so let me state unequivocally: miles still offer unmatched value to travel the world more, better, and cheaper.

Here's a round-the-world (RTW) trip you can take with miles that took me me about 10 minutes to find the award space for.

There's nothing particularly important about the cities or even the regions where this trip stops. It just shows an easy RTW award using one way awards.

We've been getting bad news in the miles world lately, so let me state unequivocally: miles still offer unmatched value to travel the world more, better, and cheaper.

Here's a round-the-world (RTW) trip you can take with miles that took me me about 10 minutes to find the award space for.

There's nothing particularly important about the cities or even the regions where this trip stops. It just shows an easy RTW award using one way awards.

United has posted a statement saying that it will not honor the mistake fares I posted about this morning that allowed one way or roundtrip First Class bookings from the United Kingdom to the United States for $100 or so. Here is the entire statement:
United is voiding the bookings of several thousand individuals who were attempting to take advantage of an error a third-party software provider made when it applied an incorrect currency exchange rate, despite United having properly filed its fares.

United has posted a statement saying that it will not honor the mistake fares I posted about this morning that allowed one way or roundtrip First Class bookings from the United Kingdom to the United States for $100 or so. Here is the entire statement:
United is voiding the bookings of several thousand individuals who were attempting to take advantage of an error a third-party software provider made when it applied an incorrect currency exchange rate, despite United having properly filed its fares.

American Airlines has taken delivery of its 787 Dreamliners.

Update: Deal is dead. United doesn't plan to honor the mistake fares. But that seems to violate DOT rules, and I know that some people will make DOT complaints. (I wouldn't. I missed out on the deal, so I can't anyway.) We'll see how it all shakes out.

Right now there are ~$100 First Class tickets from London to the United States. Hurry and book now. These deals will be gone in minutes.

Go to united.com and select Denmark as your country in the top right.

Perform a search for First Class roundtrips from London to the United States.

I'm sitting on around 100,000 US Airways miles, and I can always get more by transferring in SPG Starpoints at a rate of 20,000 Starpoints to 25,000 US Airways miles.

If I do nothing more, my US Airways miles will be transferred 1:1 to my American Airlines account some time between April and June. I already took a minute to link my accounts to ensure a smooth transfer.

Update: Deal is dead. Hopefully if you saw this post this morning, you booked immediately like I suggested. It wasn't too hard to spot that this deal was too good to last. Also hopefully, the bookings made are honored.

Expedia is running a promo.

Ryanair's CEO has mentioned standing-only tickets before, though that was probably a publicity stunt. Now Spring Airlines--a low-cost carrier hubbed in Shanghai with service throughout China and East Asia--has requested regulatory approval for standing sections in its cabins.

That's a real first step toward a far-less glamorous future for air transportation.

Up to this point, making the customer experience worse while making the base fare lower has been a good strategy.

Spirit is down to 28" of pitch (the space between seats) on its planes, which is 3-4" less than legacy carriers.