News and notes from around the interweb:

• Hotel booking website TravelPony offers new members a $25 first-time booking credit, but ups that to $35 if you’re referred by an existing member. (Here’s my previous discussion of Travelpony.)

  That $35 credit is stackable with an offer for 10% of to the first 1000 customers both today using promotion code FLASHPONY.

• 2500 Aeroplan miles for test driving a Volvo in Canada, and up to 40,000 miles for making a purchase.

• Washington DC is considering allowing taxi to engage in surge pricing the way that Uber does

• Long-grounded Kingfisher Airlines is still trying to sell itself.

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