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.
Chase has arguably long offered the best automatic travel protections of any card issuer. This has been especially true for Sapphire Reserve and Ritz cardholders who get what I often describe as "best in...
As we reported previously, Alaska Airlines is planning big changes to their Mileage Plan rewards program starting January 2025. The program will offer new ways to earn Milestone rewards and elite status. To some...
File this under "interesting, but probably useless." Bilt's newfound ability to transfer points to Accor Live Limitless has unlocked the ability to transfer Bilt points indirectly to several airline programs that are not currently...
I've been on vacation since September 26th and a lot has happened in the points & miles space in the 2+ weeks that I was away! AA and Hyatt deepened (and arguably devalued) their...
The point of this post is all in the title. I love tools that let you set up alerts so that you'll get notified when airline and hotel awards open up. I've recently had...
In this post you'll find a list of recommended hotels for using your category 1-4 certs. Most of these recommendations come directly from readers. Thank you, everyone who has contributed! And, please comment below...
My favorite points programs, by far, are transferable points programs. These are programs where points can be transferred to airline and hotel programs, making it possible to cherry-pick the best opportunities. If you earn...
Update 9/30/24: Today is the last day to redeem points at a value of 1.1 cents each without a limit. The new limit of 1,000,000 points per calendar year takes effect tomorrow, October 1,...
Ben, at One Mile at a Time, describes Japan Airline's new first class as "Unbelievably Good!!!" And, yes, three exclamation points were apparently required. Ben has flown nearly all commercial first class products that...
Not long ago, if you wanted to use your transferable points for hotel stays the advice was simple: transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards or Bilt points to Hyatt. Transferring to most other hotel programs was...
Amex credit cards vs Pay Over Time cards
Amex offers both credit cards and "Pay Over Time" cards (the latter are charge cards under the hood but also, optionally, have credit-card-like "pay over time" capability)....
The recent Citi transfer bonus to Leading Hotels of the World led me to analyze Travel & Leisure's latest list of the best hotels in the world (100 Best Hotels for 2024). My quest was...
When flying through an unfamiliar airport, it can be surprisingly difficult to know which lounges are available. Even more difficult is figuring out which lounges you can get into due to flying business/first class;...
It's possible to fly economy class to Hawaii for 10,000 miles, or fly business class to Europe for as few as 34,000 miles, or fly business class to South Africa for 75,000 miles. It's easy...