Ah, 2016. The year that many people will look at and say, "let us never speak of that again".
I thought it'd be fun to do a quick review of The Milelion's 2016, linking you back to some of the material you may have missed and giving you some of...
Years from now, when we look back at Garuda's 90% off award tickets promo, we'll still be arguing about just what it was that Garuda wanted to achieve with this.
The most convincing theory I can conjure is that Garuda management intended from the start that this would be a publicity stunt....
Going to Bangkok post-Christmas has become something of a ritual for me. It's not that Thai food or massages or shopping are particularly good elixirs for an entire month of overeating, but I'm just a creature of habit that way.
The problem with going to Bangkok post-Christmas, however, is that...
Singapore Airlines has launched the Singapore Air Games site where you play a series of poorly coded HTML5 games (I'm guessing it's HTML5, but the tech savvy among us can humiliate me in the comments if you want) that make you jump through hoops for some semblance of a reward.
The...
The Milelion wishes all readers (yes, even those of you who use cashback cards) a very blessed Christmas. Here's hoping that even amidst the turmoil of the loss of 90% award discounts and the termination of 10X on bill payments, you'll remember the many blessings we have had this year, like...
Well that didn't last long. Garuda Indonesia has pulled its astounding 90% off award ticket sale, a full 7 days before it was originally scheduled to end.
In a way, it's not surprising. Once the deal got picked up by the travel blogs, it was only a matter of time...
Christmas comes early-ish as Shopback and AMEX have teamed up to offer $50 cashback and a $50 welcome voucher for any shopback user (sign up using my link and I get $5, you get $10 with first purchase) who successfully signs up for one of the following 4 cards
AMEX...
Garuda has announced a 90% off award redemptions sale for all routes, all cabin classes. This is real. This is happening. The interweb is going crazy.
The biggest upside of this promotion for us in Singapore is that it excludes the majority of US-based flyers because
(1) Garuda doesn't fly to the...