The week that was - 19 June 2016

Here's a round up of the week that was - a summary of posts on this blog as also other things travel, aviation, points and miles that we found interesting. Hope you had a great week, and here's wishing you the very best in the next one!

Airline promotions

• Jet’s Business Class redemption offer (25% miles-back) that debuted twice actually, the first time by mistake and the second time for real
• Up to 30% bonus JP miles offer when converting points from other programs to Jet Privilege

Hotel promotions

• Sheraton-Amex promotion for 40% discount on every 2nd night's stay
• Here's a chance to earn a quarter of a million Hilton HHonors and Air Asia BIG points every month for the next 4 months!
• Here's a quick 500 points from Marriott Rewards 

As a reminder, you can find all currently active promotions that we've written about, here. Or just click on the image titled "Ongoing promotions" on our home page.

Hotel, airline and aviation news

• Jet Airways will now let you take an earlier flight - for Rs 1000 only...
• ...and so will Indigo.
• Uber now allows ride-scheduling, but will take time to come to India
• What you need to know about the new Indian civil aviation policy, and our take on it
• In case you missed it, Carlson Rezidor group was taken over by China's HNA group
• Jet Airways aircraft makes an emergency landing after engine catches fire
• Airline strands 8 y/o boy!

Travel

• Colombo in Pictures: a little picture guide to the islands bustling capital.
• Time-lapse video of Europe in 300,000 photos!