Business Travel Tips

Beginning March 1, 2012 Emirates will be added as a Alaska Airlines’ Mileage Plan member.
Below are the earning rates.

The earning rates are as follows:
Beginning March 1, 2012 Minimum 500 miles or; 50% of actual flight miles for Discount Economy (M, B, U, K, Q, L, T, V, X, H classes of service); 100% of actual flight miles for Full Fare Economy (Y, E, R, W classes of service) ; 125% of actual flight miles for Business Class (C, J, I classes of service) and 150% actual flight miles for First Class (F, A, P classes of service)
To qualify for mileage accrual, flights must must be marketed and operated by Emirates.
To ensure flight credit, the two letter airline code (EK) must precede the flight number (for example, EK XXXX) on your ticket receipt or boarding pass.

Details are available here.

TSA took the time to comment on news stories appeared this week claiming that TSA was buying equipment to test for radiation exposure.

Truth is, according to TSA, they put out an Requests for Information (RFI) to gather information on available tools to continue to monitor their technologies. This is simply designed to ask industry what new technology might be available.

TSA adds:

“TSA routinely monitors radiation levels to ensure the safety of both passengers and our workforce. We’ve never found any radiation concerns and the safety reports can be accessed publicly at TSA.gov. [...] Based on all of our previous testing, as well as monitoring from independent sources, we’re confident that all of our equipment meets national safety standards, and is safe for all passengers and our workforce. [...] All tests so far, have shown they are well within the national safety standards and each scan is equivalent to the exposure one receives during approximately 2 min of flight”.

Virgin America will add nonstop flights between Philadelphia and California in April.

The carrier will begin three daily round-trip flights from Philadelphia to Los Angeles starting April 4.  
Philadelphia – San Francisco service — with two daily round-trip flights — will begin April 10.

To celebrate the new routes, Virgin America is offering introductory one-way fares as low as $129 between Philadelphia and Los Angeles and $149 between Philadelphia and San Francisco, excluding taxes and fees.

Virgin America will also offer connecting flights between Philadelphia and San Diego, Seattle and Las Vegas.

Long haul low cost AirAsia X — AirAsia affiliate — announced it will stop service to Europe and India.

Beginning on March 30, 2012 AirAsia X will suspend Kuala Lumpur – Paris service (currently four weekly flights), as Kuala Lumpur – London service (currently six weekly flights) will see its last flight on March 31, 2012.

AirAsia X will stop flying to Mumbai (four weekly flights) on January 31, 2012 and to New Delhi (currently daily service) on March 22, 2012.

HHonors offers the chance to earn double and triple miles with four airlines to members who complete a stay by March 31, 2012 at participating hotels and resorts in the Hilton Worldwide portfolio.

The promotions are as follows: you earn double miles with American Airlines (AAdvantage miles) and Air Canada (Aeroplan Miles), triple miles with US Airways (Dividend Miles), when you book and complete a stay by March 31, 2012; you earn 2,012 miles with Delta Air Lines (Delta SkyMiles) when you book and complete a minimum two-night stay by March 31, 2012.

These promotions can be combined with other HHonors bonus point promotions.
Here you have the link to HHonors Bonus Miles promotions.