Travel is My Life; Work and Pleasure

A couple of months ago I have written about the Trans Atlantic Open Sky revolution, and here it comes; British Airways has announced to open OpenSkies new low cost airlines (www.flyopenskies.com). Not a surprise that they chose the French market to start with; (June 19th). Following the closure of 2 low cost airlines flying the Atlantic from the UK, British Airways has decided to compete with Lavion.

Prices are not bad at all, and divided to 3 categories; Business, Premium and Economy.

Round trip restricted fares; NYC PAR NYC: Business; $2450, Premium; $1525, Economy; $1155

Round Trip restricted fares PAR NYC PAR; Business; €1420, Premium; €1019, Economy; €706

A bug;

I tried to check one way prices and the site seems to display one way but the prices are of round trips.

Have a great flight; I like the Open Sky revolution.

You all travel extensively, and sometimes things go wrong;

· Your luggage was lost
· The hotel room stinks, dirty, small,
· The flight is overbooked
· Flight is cancelled.
· Avis / Hertz charged you a crazy price for fuel although tank was full,
· Things were stolen from your luggage,
· The booking you made on Expedia / Travelocity/ Orbitz / Priceline was never found
· Poor Customer Service.
· More… 

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What can I say? I was walking with my family on Saturday morning on the beach of Tel Aviv, looking for a cool place for a “shabes” morning coffee.

We wanted to walk into the well known place; Shalvata, having looked at the sign I thought twice of the place, it has to respect its visitors in order to be respected.

Shalvata - them Hebrew meaning is total relaxation, and guess what the sign at the entrance says; No entry with drugs and weapons!

Some kind of relaxation this place is…

How much does it cost you to use your millage for a “free” ticket?

It has become unreal; the airlines have found a new way to stop their most valuable clients; i.e. the frequent flyer members, from making use of their accumulated miles / points.

Previously, the airlines have adopted the “Black Out Period”, high season and public holidays and whenever the airline just think they can get more $ on a seat, they would just say; it’s a black out period.

Now days, they have found an improved way… allow the use of miles; though, mostly, on double miles; and charge Airport Taxes + Fuel charges.

Taking an example of a few airlines flying out of Tel Aviv, Israel and the $ you would have to pay for an economy class round trip:

Firstly, I would like to acknowledge the fact that Continental Airlines & Delta still respect their clients and take upon themselves the fuel charges, after all the client flew with them “quite” a lot to reach the state where he/ she can issue a bonus ticket. Having said that, finding a bonus ticket on regular miles with Continental is likely to happen, you will have to issue on “One Pass” which is 150% on miles or double miles ; better than nothing :)

My advice would be; accumulate points as much as possible and utilize them on a bonus business class ticket.  Moreover, try to use points from credit card and transfer to airlines who respect that (ELAL has a great value of transaction)