Got VIP Status?

You spent 10′s of thousands of $$’s on Expedia and got Elite Status. Got Platinum Status on Continental. Whats it worth – Bupkis. Diddly sqat. Or less. For example – upgrades to business class coming from Israel. A friend of mine (unnamed, but you will see him suffering in economy tonight all the way to [...]

Free Ticket for your Kids 18th Birthday

It turns out my readers like the free stuff – so here is our best one yet: Your kid turns 18 and he or she is headed to the army or whatever. Time for a free trip. Step by step process would make Abbie Hoffman proud. Step 1: Sign up for American Airlines (should have [...]

Good Things about ElAl Gold and Platinum (for serious flyers only)

In the interest of fairness and zionism – I decided to write a post about what is good about accruing miles on ElAl. This is not to be confused with actually flying ElAl. I love flying ElAl. But, you can fly ElAl and get much more valuable miles on other airlines. So, today I decided [...]

Frequent Flyer Guide to US (even for this summer)

With the rising cost of airfare – there is only one real solution to vacation travel to the US – use free tickets. Since I know many readers of this blog have 100,000′s of miles sitting in their accounts, I decided to summarize the options available for using them for trips to the States (including [...]

Free Mobile Phone in US

Probably most TLV2JFK readers live a double life – besides taking the kids to school in Ranana – offices in the city, house in Teaneck, family in Queens and of course, a US Cellphone. I don’t – my office, house, family and bank account are all in Ranana. But I needed a phone for a [...]

American Airlines will lose your bags for only a dime.

American Airlines is now charging $15 for the FIRST BAG checked. Multiply by their 0.75% lost bag rate and you get that American Airlines will lose you bag for only 10 cents. Seriously, this will NOT apply to international flights and to elite status members. You get to lose your bags for free. Peder Zane [...]

Los Angeles Kosher Dining – not just pizza!

I am not a blogger. People actually PAY ME to write. But since I really love this blog – I decided to contibute. For free. Not even for a corned beef on rye! And I decided to write about two things I really like – a nice kosher meal and Los Angeles. Here goes – [...]

ElAl Best Frequent flyer freddie awards – Hutzpah!!

I hate to have to bash ElAl every day – especially in the spirit of the 60th year Independence Celebrations, but this takes the industry Hutzpah award. ElAl flyers received a nice email with this ad: Wow, we all said – little old Israel makes it to the world frequent flyer stage. Well, not quite. [...]