Go here, provide your Rapid Reward information plus an email address, and get 2 rapid reward points for each email update subscription. If you stay subscribed for 3 months across both email subscriptions, you will receive 4 rapid reward points. Looks like an easy way to get some free points with very little effort.
Starwood recently posted the following promotion to Flyertalk:
Dear members,
I know there has been a lot of speculation and theories about SPG's Q2 promotion of late, and I'm excited to finally be able to announce what is planned! You're the first to get this information - SPG Free Weekends will kick off on May 1st and offer a Free Weekend Night Award for every eligible three stays through July 31, 2010 at any SPG property worldwide. There are no limits on the number of Awards you can earn. When you're ready to get away, you can use your Free Weekend Night Awards through December 19, 2010 at over 920 Category 1-6 hotels across all of our 9 brands -- like W, The Luxury Collection, and St Regis. And of course, there aren't any blackout dates on the Awards, and you can even combine them to use toward a long weekend or to extend a paid stay.
Go to spg.com/freeweekends(which will be put up in a few hours' time) to learn more about the promotion. We've included a full list of FAQ's. Registration will formally begin on May 1st.
Here is a simple summary I have prepared:
- 1(One) Free Weekend Night award for every 3(Three) eligible stays.
- Registration begins 1 May 2010 and ends 30 June 2010. Only 61 days, so do not miss the window.
- Earning period begins 1 May 2010 and ends 31 July 2010.
- Redemption period begins 7 May 2010 and ends 19 December 2010.
- Awards are redeemable only at Participating properties from Categories 1 to 6.
- Free Weekend nights refer to any Friday, Saturday or Sunday except for properties otherwise stated.
Finally, we are ready so fire away.
Thyetus Lee
Southwest is offering a double credit promotion with some specific criteria:
Take advantage of our Double Credit Days promotion—one bonus Rapid Rewards credit on every flight you take on Southwest Airlines. That means you can earn two credits for every one-way flight (four credits when you travel roundtrip) from any city that Southwest serves. At that rate, you’ll earn a free flight* to any of more than 65 destinations after just four roundtrip flights!
Purchase a Business Select Fare with this promotion, and you’ll receive 2.25 credits for shorthaul flights and 3.0 credits for longhaul flights.
- Register for this promotion between April 7 and May 26, 2010.
- Book a flight for yourself between April 7 and May 26, 2010.
- Complete your travel between April 7 and May 26, 2010.
Please note you have to register, book the flight, AND fly it within the specified time frame. Sign up now if you plan to fly Southwest. If you need to, take advantage of Southwest’s "no change fee" and re-book your flights to take advantage of the offer, if the fare hasn’t changed. It might be worth it even if the fare has changed a few dollars.
Another late reminder on a Starwood promotion which started earlier this year.
Earn 2x, 3x or 4x the Starpoints on all your eligible stays.
Start out the year with rich rewards from SPG®, where the more nights you have in your stay, the more bonus Starpoints® you’ll earn. Receive double, triple or quadruple Starpoints
for every night of each eligible stay — with no limits — between
January 5 and April 15, 2010. For example, a three-night stay earns you
triple Starpoints on each night.
Better late than never.
If you’re staying at a Westin between now and May 13, 2010 then make sure you register before April 30, 2010 to take advantage of this promotion.
The conditions:
Register now and stay twice at a Westin® hotel in the U.S. or Canada by May 13, 2010, and you’ll receive a $100 Amazon.com Gift Card. Use it on the new Westin Wellness collection or on millions of other items at Amazon.com.
Be sure to register by April 30, 2010, and stay by May 13, 2010, arriving Sunday–Thursday, to qualify for this exceptional offer.
Valid for Starwood Preferred Guest members on new bookingsmade after registration.
Go here. Enter your mileage plus number and do what you do by flying at least 3 qualifying round trips. 
Sorry for the late post on this one.
This promotion has been in effect for a while, but it’s worth mentioning since free Internet is always a good thing. It’s only available to Starwood Platinum members and you don’t have to do anything to take advantage of it.
Here’s how it works:
- Log on to the Internet when you get to your room.
- If you receive a prompt asking you to accept the hotel’s Internet access charges, please accept them.
- Because you are a Platinum member, Internet access charges will be eliminated from your final hotel bill.2
The fine print:
Please note that in-hotel Platinum benefits, including complimentary Internet access, do not apply when
the reservation is pre-paid or booked through a third party.
A few Starwood members voiced concerns on how vulnerable the process appears to human error since the charges must be eliminated manually, but folks who have used it have not issues with it incorrectly appearing as a charge.
Looks good to me.
My fellow Delta fliers have alerted me to a promotion with a “social” angle. Here’s the summary straight from the horse’s mouth:
- Team captain has to have a SkyMiles account address in MI, MN, TN, or WA – he/she then can invite up to 3 teammates, who can live anywhere
- Fly before May 15th with flights booked on any AMEX
- Earn up to 20,000 miles per member
Hurry up - you have until April 15 to register up your teams!
I’m a huge fan of Mint.com so when I heard AwardWallet.com mentioned in the same sentence, I decided to take a look. The concept is straight forward. Enter your login credentials and AwardWallet.com will track your balances and notify you of events such as expiration of points/miles.
The Good:
- The interface is clean
- The website had no issues gathering my balance information; I tested 2 hotels, 2 airlines, 2 car rentals, and my corporate card
- I really like having all my membership numbers in a single location
The Not-So-Good:
- I got a email telling me about my travel itinerary as soon as I entered my airline information; I did not ask to track my travel plans.
- Instead of displaying my Hertz balance, it had a link asking me to upgrade to AwardWallet Plus; I haven’t had a chance to see the value in the service and I’m already being asked for money?
- A connection section; No I’m not interested in sharing my travel plans with all my connections
Suggestion to AwardWallet.com: You need to focus on being awesome in a single space. Stop trying to compete with TripIt. Build a great service, then ask for money. Asking me to upgrade before I can truely understand the value is wasting both our times. Not everything needs to have a social networking component to it (Mint.com did not and look how well they did). Some of us think Facebook is a waste of time (and frequent flyers don’t have alot of time). Understand your target customer and get some of them on your board. Your website is called "Award Wallet", not "Travel Itineraries" or "Travel Connections" - either change your name or stop trying to be all things. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
I plan to report back after I’ve given it a few cycles. Let’s see what happens.
Like Southwest, US Airways is also holding a promotion for flyers interested in retaining or obtaining status.
Promotion Details:
Get ready for the fastest, easiest way ever to get (or keep) Preferred status. Just fly between October 1 and December 25, 2009 on any US Airways or US Airways Express flight, and you’ll earn Preferred status faster than ever before. The more you fly, the more you’ll earn. Think of it as an end-of-the-year shortcut.
Here’s how it works:
- Fly 7,500 miles or 10 segments and earn Silver Preferred status
- Fly 15,000 miles or 20 segments and earn Gold Preferred status
- Fly 22,500 miles or 30 segments and earn Platinum Preferred status
- Fly 30,000 miles or 40 segments and earn Chairman’s Preferred status
Don’t worry, the miles you fly will also count towards the total miles you flew for the year – you’ll be awarded the highest status between the two. So if you fly 55,000 Preferred miles for the year but only end up flying 8,000 Preferred miles during the promotion period, you’ll still earn Gold status for the year.
We’ll determine and award your Preferred status on January 10, 2010. You don’t need to register (we’ll keep track of your flights). We told you it was easy!
Something to think about if you live in a city where US Airways is a hub.