Greg The Frequent Miler
Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.
Delta’s window-seat shop of horrors
Imagine that you're a couple thousand dollars short of the MQDs (Medallion Qualifying Dollars) required to get to the next level of Delta elite status. Now consider that Delta has sent emails to cardmembers...
My favorite Dell purchases
If you have the Business Platinum Card® from American Express, then we share a problem... or, an opportunity. Every six months we can buy stuff from Dell and get up to $200 back. That's...
Pondering my own great Delta mileage run (5 years Diamond)
Last week I wrote about my wife's "last, great Delta mileage run." She is fairly close to achieving Delta's 2 Million Miler status and that will mean lifetime Platinum Medallion status. And, critically, this...
The last great Delta mileage run
Delta's revised SkyMiles plans for 2024 and beyond present an incredible opportunity. With considerable cost and effort through the remainder of this year, my wife has the opportunity to earn 7 years of Delta...
Delta flyer living outside the US? Last chance for easy elite status
Remember Maisie the Culinary Concierge? She contacted me a few days ago because she found that she was $2,865 MQDs (Medallion Qualifying Dollars) short of earning Delta Platinum Medallion status. She had more than...
Delta revises SkyMiles changes: more SkyClub visits, lower elite thresholds, better 1-time rollovers, vastly...
Delta announced revisions to the drastic SkyMiles changes that led to many, many fliers (including yours truly) declaring that they're done with Delta. And while we knew that walkbacks to this plan were coming,...
Big changes to Hilton Aspire and Surpass cards
With no advanced warning, Amex today introduced big changes to the Hilton Surpass and Aspire cards. The Aspire card's annual fee has increased, Priority Pass is gone, annual credits have changed, and a few...
Can JetBlue capture my loyalty?
Thanks to JetBlue's generous status match for Delta elites, I now have near-top-tier Mosaic 3 elite status with JetBlue, and my wife has top-tier Mosaic 4 status. Additionally, since we each were approved for...
Kimpton Fitzroy London Bottom Line Review
IHG's Kimpton Fitzroy hotel in London is visually stunning inside and out. My wife and I just spent 6 nights here and enjoyed our stay. While we still prefer Marriott's St. Pancras Renaissance hotel...
Citi’s new path to luxury hotel stays
We now have a new way to book independent luxury hotels with points! As we reported yesterday, Citi added a new transfer partner to their ThankYou Rewards program: Leading Hotels of the World (LHW). ...
JetBlue’s Mosaic FoundersCard benefit. Is this a joke?
In the recent post "Digging into JetBlue’s amazing status match for Delta elites" I wrote about the easy status match my wife and I had taken advantage of to go from high level Delta...
Digging into JetBlue’s amazing status match for Delta elites
Suddenly, my wife has top-tier JetBlue Mosaic 4 elite status and I'm just one notch down at Mosaic 3. We've each flown JetBlue only once in our lives... in 2016. We have our status...
Plans for expanding my credit card collection
Even though it seems like I have all of the best rewards card on the market, every now and then great offers appear for cards I don't yet have. That's happening now and I'm...
Delta SkyMiles: Business class deals aren’t dead. Here’s how to find them.
It's been a long time since Delta's international business class award prices competed favorably with competitors like AA or United, but until a few years ago it was possible to find awards that were...
