If youve followed this blog for awhile, you probably have seen me mention Andaz Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo a few times. It was an absolute steal back when it was a category 4 property. Im sure 9
Day: December 7, 2022
British Airways offers good award availability, for instance a minimum of 4 business class award seats per flight, but the knock on them has long been the surcharges. BA has charged up to $1600 round

Air France KLM Flying Blue is the most useful frequent flyer program in SkyTeam, though its not nearly as valuable as it once was. The alliance is generally dreadful, but since Korean Air is devaluin

Alaska Airlines and El Al announced a partnership three years ago. Its taken until this week to introduce award redemption. You can now earn and redeem Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles for travel
News and notes from around the interweb:
Forget the inflight proposal, why not actually get married on board?@SouthwestAir a wedding in the air in our flight from SJO to BWI pic.twitter.com/0uMag1Xr1g

Southwest Airlines is offering a 25% discount on tickets booked by December 7 for travel December 24-25 and December 31, 2022 and January 1, 2023. These are the Saturdays and Sundays of holiday weeken
Theres a debate, mostly in Europe, over whether to ban frequent flyer programs for the environment because:
Flying contributes to carbon emissions
Frequent flyer programs encourage flying
And its ineq